Leonardo Da Vinci the Complete Paintings Hardcover Coffee Table Book

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Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings.
Book by Pietro Marani
Da Vinci in detail: Leonardo's life and work all paintings.
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Book by Pietro Marani
Da Vinci in detail: Leonardo's life and work all paintings.
One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci(1452 1519) is recognized the world over as a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability. This updated edition of our XL title provides the most comprehensive survey of the life and work of this master painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and inventor. Its catalogue raisonne of Leonardo s paintings covers both his surviving and his lost painted works. With full-bleed details of many paintings, the reader is able to inspect the subtlest facets of brushworks that came to revolutionize Art History. A further catalog of Leonardo's drawings arranges nearly 700 of his drawings by category (architecture, technical, proportion, cartography, etc) and showcases his fabulous observational finesse, from anatomical studies to architectural plans, from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits. It includes a fresh chapter exploring the artist's mesmerizing manuscripts. The accompanying account of Leonardo's life and work includes a special in-depth exploration of his masterworks The Annunciation and The Last Supper. "
Title: Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings.
382pp. 295 illustrations including 200 in full colour. Printed on high-quality picture paper. First English edition, translated from the original Italian. The definitive exploration of da Vinci's paintings. Fine volume in like dust jacket.
Ideal gift for those with interest in Leonardo. Folio volume - large and heavy. Superb book.
Printed in Italy.
Hardcover Book
Measures: Width 11.5"
Depth 1.5"
Height 13.5".
Title: Leonardo Da Vinci : The Complete Paintings
Publisher: Harry N Abrams, New York
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition.
Large heavy coffee table book in very good condition See less