Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones

Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinciâ€™s death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the masterâ€™s milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more.
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Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small Tuscan town of Vinci in April 1452. Over the centuries, he has become one of the most famous people in the history of visual culture. Spring 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of his death in May 1519, with exhibitions and events planned across Europe and the United States. This lavishly illustrated volume by Martin Kempâ€”one of the worldâ€™s leading authorities on da Vinciâ€”offers a fresh way of looking at the masterâ€™s work. Kemp focuses on 100 key, broadly chronological milestones that cover an extraordinary range of topic across Leonardoâ€™s many fields of discipline: painting, where he brought new levels of formal and emotional grandeur to his works, including The Last Supper and Portrait of Lisa del Giocondo (the â€œMona Lisaâ€); anatomical studies, which are extraordinary for their sense of form and function (Studies of the Optics of the Human Eye and Ventricles of the Brain); engineering marvels, noted for their range and extraordinary visual quality (Gearing for a Clockwork Mechanism and Wheels without Axles and Designs for a Flying Machine); and his progressive engagement with a range of sciencesâ€”anatomy, optics, dynamics, statics, geology, and mathematics.

Country	USA
Author	Martin Kemp
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781454930433
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Sterling
Manufacturer	Sterling
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2019-05-14
Publisher	Sterling
ReleaseDate	2019-05-14
Studio	Sterling

Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones

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