Leonardo'S Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master

An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller.Leonardo da Vinci?artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man?is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about the natural and man-made world. During his life he created numerous works of art and kept voluminous notebooks that detailed his artistic and intellectual pursuits.The collection of writings and art in this magnificent book are drawn from his notebooks. The book organizes his wide range of interests into subjects such as human figures, light and shade, perspective and visual perception, anatomy, botany and landscape, geography, the physical sciences and astronomy, architecture, sculpture, and inventions. Nearly every piece of writing throughout the book is keyed to the piece of artwork it describes.The writing and art is selected by art historian H. Anna Suh, who provides fascinating commentary and insight into the material, making Leonardo's Notebooks an exquisite single-volume compendium celebrating his enduring genius.

萊昂納多的筆記本：大師的寫作與藝術

全新的，如同珍寶般，易於閲讀的尺寸，重新推出國際暢銷書帶來了新生對自然和人造世界的無限好奇心。在他的一生中，他創作了無數藝術品，並保留了大量筆記本，詳細介紹了他的藝術和思想追求。這本宏偉的書中的著作和藝術品均來自他的筆記本。該書將他廣泛的興趣組織到諸如人物，光影，透視和視覺感知，解剖學，植物學和景觀，地理，物理科學和天文學，建築，雕塑和發明等主題中。整本書中幾乎所有的作品都以其所描述的藝術品為關鍵。藝術史學家H.Anna Suh選擇了該作品和藝術，他對材料提供了有趣的評論和見解，從而使萊昂納多的筆記本成為精美的單冊紀念他持久的天才的綱要。

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About the Author

Leonardo da Vinci (Author) 

Leonardo da Vinci is recognized as the quintessential Renaissance Man. A great painter, he was equally prodigious in the fields of architecture, engineering, anatomy, and physical science.

H. Anna Suh (Author) 

H. Anna Suh has a master's degree in art and archaeology from Princeton University. She was on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has worked on projects for scholarly publications at the Met, New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, the Princeton University Art Museum, and Harvard University. She lives in New York City.Vincent van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work-notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color-had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

Product details

Flexibound: 448 pages

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal; 01 edition (1 Sept. 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1579129463

ISBN-13: 978-1579129460

Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 3.2 x 21 cm