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Leonardo
by Kemp, Martin
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition (ex-library)
- ISBN 10
- 0192806440
- ISBN 13
- 9780192806444
- Seller
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition (ex-library). First impression. 286 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. ?It has library stamps and markings, but very discreetly on the half-title and title pages. Otherwise unmarked.. A true genius whose talents embraced painting, engineering, anatomy and human flight, Leonardo da Vinci was an extraordinary human being, indeed one of the most intriguing figures in world history. In this biography, Martin Kemp offers a vivid portrait of the Renaissance giant that explores the essential nature of this forever fascinating artist-engineer, both as an individual and as a historical phenomenon, feeding the "the continuing public appetite for Leonardo and his doings" found in The Da Vinci Code. Kemp takes us on an absorbing journey through the life and work of Leonardo, looking first at the historical man, portraying an impressive and cultivated figure, an artist who in truth completed few paintings, rarely satisfied a commission, and yet lived in the style and ended his career with a massive salary. More important, the author examines the ideas underlying Leonardo's investigations of nature, illuminating his vision of the artist-engineer as matching nature itself in his creativity. Kemp argues that Leonardo's apparent diversities reveal a desire to find an inner unity in the functioning of everything in the observable world. For Leonardo, writes Kemp, every act of looking and drawing was an act of analysis, and he used these analyses to re-make and re-interpret his surroundings. Beautifully illustrated with a unique "thumbnail museum" that offers a tour of all Leonardo's paintings, plus 30 additional illustrations and life-size reproductions of pages from his famous notebooks, Leonardo is a powerful portrait of one of the towering geniuses of world history. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Art & Design. ISBN: 0192806440. ISBN/EAN: 9780192806444. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3256. . 9780192806444
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- Seller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3256
- Title
- Leonardo
- Author
- Kemp, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition (ex-library)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0192806440
- ISBN 13
- 9780192806444
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, Painters -- Italy -- Biography, Inventors -- Italy -- Biography, Biography & Autobiography; Art & Design. ISBN: 0192806440 EAN: 9780192806444 Kemp, Martin Leonardo
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