Leonardo da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete

Thoughts on Art and Life

Scientist, painter, mechanical engineer, sculptor, thinker, city planner, storyteller, musician, architect — Leonardo da Vinci, builder of the first flying machine, was one of the great universal geniuses of Western civilization. His voluminous notebooks, the great storehouse of his theories and discoveries, are presented here in 1566 extracts that reveal the full range of Leonardo's versatile interest: all the important writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, astronomy, geography, topography, and other fields are included, in both Italian and English, with 186 plates of manuscript pages and many other drawings reproduced in facsimile size. The first volume, which contains all of Leonardo's writings on aspects of painting, includes discussions of such basic scientific areas as the structure of the eye and vision, perspective, the science of light and shade, the perspective of disappearance, theory of color, perspective of color, proportions and movements of the human figure, botany for painters, and the elements of landscape painting. A section on the practice of painting includes moral precepts for painters and writings on composition, materials, and the philosophy of art. The second volume contains writings on sculpture, architecture (plans for towns, streets, and canals, churches, palaces, castles, and villas, theoretical writings on arches, domes, fissures, etc.), zoology, physiology (including his amazingly accurate theories of blood circulation), medicine, astronomy, geography (including has famous writings and drawings on the movement of water), topography (observations in Italy, France, and other areas), naval warfare, swimming, theory of flying machines, mining, music, and other topics. A selection of philosophical maxims, morals, polemics, fables, jests, studies in the lives and habits of animals, tales, and prophecies display Leonardo's abilities as a writer and scholar. The second volume also contains some letters, personal records, inventories, and accounts, and concludes with Leonardo's will. The drawings include sketches and studies for some of Leonardo's greatest works of art — The Last Supper, the lost Battle of Anghiari, The Virgin of the Rocks, and the destroyed Sforza monument.

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. I

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. 2

Leonardo (da Vinci)

Historisches Museum der Pfalz (Speyer, Germany)

Meinrad Maria Grewenig

Otto Letze

Fedja Anzelewsky

Tentoonstellingscatalogus van de Italiaanse kunstenaar (1452-1519).

Künstler, Erfinder, Wissenschaftler

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"All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part." A fascinating collection of writings from the great polymath of the Italian Renaissaince, Leonardo da Vinci. There are sections covering the great man's thoughts on life, art and science. Maurice Baring trawled the available manuscripts to distil da Vinci's writings on these subjects into a single, accessible tome, which will be of interest to students of da Vinci, the Renaissance and the history of both art and science. "Some most interesting instances of Leonardo's keen and inquisitive observation. The eye fascinated Leonardo. He observes it acutely under many conditions...The remarkable restlessness of a creative mind that could not choose but employ itself in investigation and inquiry. Of course he insists on being guilty of the great forensic sin of proving too much. But what a busy head! This is a book which on one who has wondered at the smile of the Mona Lisa will fail to find of great interest; for in it is set down, quite simply for the most part, the personality of an uncommon thinker." -The International Studio, Volume 31, March, 1907 Introduction I. Thoughts on Life II. Thoughts on Art III. Thoughts on Science IV. Bibliographical Note V. Table of References

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Irma Anne Richter

Paragone

John Francis Rigaud

This work is the principal repository of da Vinci's practical thoughts on the technique of drawing and painting. It begins with precise instructions on drawing the human body and then moves on to techniques of rendering motion. Includes 48 anatomical drawings by Nicholas Poussin and geometrical and architectural designs by Leon Battista Alberti.

A Treatise on Painting

Arranged Rendered Into English and Introduced

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Here are clear reproductions of over 1,200 anatomical drawings by one of humanity's greatest geniuses — still considered, nearly five centuries later, the finest ever rendered. 215 plates.

Leonardo on the Human Body

Jean Paul Richter

Throughout his life Leonardo da Vinci carried notebooks in which he scribbled down ideas and opinions as they occurred - personal, domestic, scientific, philosophical, artistic - frequently accompanied by explanatory sketches and diagrams. Surviving manuscripts contain drafts of letters, fanciful fables, rough treatises on the art of painting or the power of water, descriptions of the Medici courts, even jokes. The present selection gives coherence to this rich kaleidoscope of ideas. From it emerges the portrait of a true Renaissance man, whose habit of rigorous enquiry, observation, and experiment, grounded on a philosophic system, led him to conceive of the universe as an organized cosmos corresponding to a work of art.

This edition includes the complete notebooks (volume one and two).Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He jotted down fables, epigrams, and letters and developed his belief in the sublime unity of nature and man. Through his notebooks we can get an insight into Leonardo's thoughts, and his approach to work and life.

The award-winning and bestselling collection of the exquisite, annotated notebooks of Leonardo now in paperback. Culled from more than 7,000 pages of sketches and writings found in various rare books, papers, and other resources throughout the world, Leonardos Notebooks presents, for the first time, an exhaustive collection of the insights and brilliance of perhaps the finest mind the world has ever known.

The Notebooks - The Original Classic Edition

Jean Richter

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci points out, however, that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.

Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Pierre Théberge

Musée des Beaux-Arts (Montréal)

Leonardo Da Vinci, Engineer and Architect

Il Codice Leicester. Ediz. Inglese

Una serie di storie, favole, leggende scritte e raccolte dal grande Leonardo da Vinci, e attualizzate nello stile e nel linguaggio per una lettura più scorrevole e immediata. Dalle parole di Leonardo emerge l’immenso amore per la natura di un autore che riesce a colorare di poesia anche i miti e i racconti popolari più ingenui, come solo i grandi geni riescono a fare. Bestie mitologiche, mostri e specie immaginarie, animali esotici ma anche quelli tipici della quotidianità della campagna italiana: Leonardo trasfigura ogni parola riconducendola a una dimensione magica ed eterea, riuscendo allo stesso tempo a trasmettere un profondo senso di realtà, di concretezza. Pagine dalla bellezza senza tempo da leggere e rileggere, per scoprire ogni volta una sfumatura o un riflesso che credevamo dimenticato.

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