The Treasures of Leonardo Da Vinci |
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Matthew Landrus
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Pages: 64 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0233001867
Pub: Andre Deutsch Ltd
Pub date: 2006-06-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 290026
Reader Reviews:
Thorough and interesting (10/10 people found this helpful)
This book actually has 182 pages, when one counts 116 pages of facsimiles. Each chapter is well crafted with a range of media, ideas, facts, photos, etc., giving a well-rounded perspective of Leonardo's life and times. This being the intent of the author, as he says in the introduction. Authenticity is obviously important, from the correct sizes of the reproduced facsimiles (rare), to the up-to-date scholarship (uncommon). It's got a little bit of everything for almost everyone - in-depth material for the new student or for the seasoned scholar - Leonardo himself might've recommended it.
An unusual, informed, and welcome approach to da man, da vinci (10/10 people found this helpful)
Amazon should have more pictures of this book, thanks to its unusual format. If you want to know more about Leonardo you've got to have a 'look' at this portfolio format, boxed, facsimile packed, well-written (IMO) book. I have a handful of titles about him, but few of them take this much of an interdisciplinary approach - so that it's as interesting to read as to look at. It seems to have the latest independent research (see info on the Annunciation, Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, Giant Crossbow) that you may not see elsewhere, and it recaps recent findings (see info on the Virgin of the Rocks, heart valve studies, and flying machine). In most places it's absolutely fresh (even the Mona Lisa info!), not a rehash of the usual Leonardo stuff. Just a couple oddities I've found: the tiny Franchino Gaffurius print on p. 19 is a negative print (not the positive that it's supposed to be), and the Last Supper perspective layout on p. 35 is only partially reproduced, missing the full diagram that might look like the author's diagram as reproduced in Martin Kemp's 'Leonardo da Vinci, The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man' (OUP 2006). Still, 'Treasures' is thorough, in-depth, very interesting, and concise, a rare treat.
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