Leonardo da Vinci embodied the Renaissance ideal, excelling not only as a painter and sculptor but also as an architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound curiosity about the human body and the natural world resulted in meticulously detailed anatomical studies that served both art and medicine. Though many of his ambitious projects remained unfinished, his notebooks reveal a mind centuries ahead of its time, exploring mechanics, physics, and natural phenomena. Leonardo's legacy is one of relentless inquiry, challenging conventions and pushing the boundaries of knowledge.
One of the great Renaissance painters and a universally acknowledged genius, Leonardo da Vinci used a psychological approach to his art, establishing the idea of the artist as creative thinker rather than a skilled artisan. Sixteen of this master's greatest works are reproduced in miniature for this lovely sticker collection, including Vitruvian Man, Madonna with the Carnation, Bacchus, a detail from The Last Supper, Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), and 11 others.
A selection of sketches, diagrams, and notebook writings by the Italian Renaissance master offers insight into his theories and observations as well as his role in period art, town planning, science, and philosophy
More than fifteen hundred extracts containing the Renaissance genius' maxims, prophecies, fables, letters, and brilliant observations in architecture, painting, physiology, geography, and other fields
The book is a facsimile reprint of a scarce antiquarian title, preserving its historical significance despite potential imperfections like marks and flawed pages. It aims to protect and promote cultural literature, offering readers an affordable, high-quality edition that remains true to the original work.
Explore the genius of Leonardo da Vinci in The Leonardo da Vinci Sketchbook. This resource delves into his unfinished works and drawings, offering insights into his techniques and principles. Discover anatomical studies and tonal compositions to inspire and guide you on your journey to becoming a master artist.
Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts. Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man -- is a perennial source of fascination. His astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about both the natural and man-made world influenced his numerous works of art, theories, and sentiments -- all of which were kept in his voluminous notebooks. This book is a collection of da Vinci's intricately detailed artistic and intellectual pursuits, and highlights the classic pieces of art he produced in connection with his writings. Leonardo's Notebooks provides a fascinating look into da Vinci's most private world, and sorts 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, inventions and so much more. Exploring this image-filled book is as close to reading da Vinci's diaries as we can get. Organized and curated by art historian H. Anna Suh, she provides fascinating commentary and insight into the material, making Leonardo's Notebooks an exquisite single-volume compendium celebrating his enduring brilliance.
A selection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings on painting. Martin Kemp and Margaret Walker have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources. schovat popis
Remember the first time you blew out the candles on your birthday cake and made a wish? That was your first experience of candle magic. Candle magic is a simple but effective magical technique, involving a basic minimum of equipment and experience. In this complete manual are instructions for marking, dressing and anointing candles and for using them in a variety of rituals - of attraction, banishment, peace and contemplation and of Mystical Novena. The Book of Practical Candle Magic, written by an experienced occultist, offers expert guidance on a fascinating aspect of magical theory and includes a historical survey of the candle in religion and folklore as well as essential information on colour symbolism, angelic signatures, planetary signs and zodiacal correspondences.
"Two of Leonardo's notebooks, having been officially lost since 1830, were rediscovered in the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, in 1965... On the basis of the wealth of new material in the notebooks, a group of the world's leading Vincians contributed to a reassessment of the many facets of Leonardo's genius, a large-scale collection of essays, which was published as The Unknown Leonardo. The present book...is reprinted in smaller format from that voluminous work"--from Introduction (page 7)
This volume also contains a further selection of Leonardo da Vinci's fragmentary writings, in the form of fables and aphorisms. Taken together, these pieces provide an invaluable insight into the thought processes of one of the Renaissance's most productive minds.