$68.62
- Hardcover
768 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2014
Summary
One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world’s most famous paintings, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the great flowering of human consciousness that marks his era.
As part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, Leonardo da Vinci - The Graphic Work features top-quality reproductions of 663 of Leonardo’s drawings
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783836554411 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3836554410 |
| Author: | Johannes Nathan, Frank Zöllner |
| Publisher: | Taschen GmbH |
| Imprint: | Taschen GmbH |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 1.22kg |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 140mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Bibliotheca Universalis |
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Critics Review
“The da Vinci bible.”
Fantastic… a ‘home museum’ of a kind that does not exist for many other artists. Even the smallest drawing is reproduced in outstanding quality… * art *
Johannes Nathan
Frank Zöllner wrote his doctoral thesis on motifs originating from Antiquity in the history of art and architecture of the Medieval and Renaissance periods (1987). He is also the author of a postdoctoral treatise on motion and expression in the art of Leonardo da Vinci, published in 2010. He has published numerous works on Renaissance art and art theory, and on 20th-century art. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Leipzig. For TASCHEN he has authored the XL monographs on Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Johannes Nathan studied art history at New York University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1995 with a dissertation on the working methods of Leonardo da Vinci. He is the author of numerous art publications, director of Nathan Fine Art (Berlin and Zürich) and teaches art history at the Technische Universität, Berlin.
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