Leonardo Da Vinci, French Book by Jean-Claude Frere, 1994

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Leonard de Vinci (Leonardo Da Vinci), French book by Jean-Claude, Frere, 1994.
We generally agree to recognize Leonardo da Vinci … Read more Leonard de Vinci (Leonardo Da Vinci), French book by Jean-Claude, Frere, 1994.
We generally agree to recognize Leonardo da Vinci as the greatest artist of all time. This book retraces his career as a painter. This work was born of the need to reconsider Leonardo's art in its evolution. From the years of apprenticeship in Florence to the autonomous beginnings. From the maturity experienced in Lombardy to the withdrawal self to which the late works testify. All in the light of the latest studies and the most recent proposals for attribution, dating, and interpretation.
The work is completed by a synthetic catalog of his paintings, a review of all the documents relating to the orders placed with him, and a rich bibliography.
This book restores, alongside twenty painted masterpieces, the hidden faces of Leonardo da Vinci, a man of science, philosopher, architect, town planner, anatomist, botanist, and engineer.
When Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in Tuscany, the natural son of a notary and a peasant woman, nothing foreshadowed such an extraordinary destiny. From his earliest childhood, he perceived himself as "other," and this intimate feeling of an irreducible difference has forged in him a taste for freedom and innovation.
He stubbornly claimed the nobility of practical intelligence. The air, says Leonardo, as soon as day breaks, is filled with innumerable images to which the eye serves as a magnet. As for his "fabulous machines," forty of which are reconstructed from his drawings at Clos-Lucé in Amboise, France, where he spent the last years of his life, Vinci was able to see them working in the imagination of his sketches and their calculations. It is all the facets of the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, this diamond of the Renaissance so close to our modernity - painter, engineer, inventor, mathematician, architect, that we have endeavored to present in this book. More than one hundred and fifty color illustrations of known and lesser-known works (paintings, drawings, sketches, notebooks, notes, plans, studies, etc.) take us into the reality and intimacy of a man who lived four centuries ahead.
This is a beautiful coffee table art book.

About the Author:
Jean-Claude Frere: Doctor of Philosophy (Paris 4, 1972). - Former professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Question de."

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Title: Leonard De Vinci, peintre, inventeur, visionnaire, mathematicien, philosophe, ingenieur (Leonardo Da Vinci, painter, inventor, visionary, mathematician, philosopher, engineer).
Author: Jean-Claude Frere.
Softcover book.
Language: French.
Numerous color and black and white illustrations.
208 pages.
Dimensions: 9.44 in. x 11.82 in. (24 x 30 cm).
Published in 1994 by Finest SA - Editions Pierre Terrail, Paris. See less