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2004., Doubleday Call No: Fic Bro Edition: Special illustrated ed., 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view More...
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c2012., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: 759.5 K54l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Milan, 1496 and forty-four-year-old Leonardo da Vinci has a reputation for taking on commissions and failing to complete them. He is in a state of professional uncertainty and financial difficulty. For eighteen months he has been painting murals in both the Sforza Castle in Milan and the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The latter project will become the Last Supper, a complex mural that took a full three years to complete on a surface fifteen feet high by twenty feet wide. Not only had he never attempted a painting of such size, but he had no experience whatsoever in painting in the physically demanding medium of fresco. For more than five centuries the Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark has called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. Even today, according to Clark, we regard the painting as 'more a work of nature than a work of man'. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic 'miracle', which was created against the backdrop of momentous events both in Milan and in the life of Leonardo himself. In Leonardo and the Last Supper, Ross King tells the complete story of this creation of this mural: the adversities suffered by the artist during its execution; the experimental techniques he employed; the models for Christ and the Apostles that he used; and the numerous personalities involved - everyone from the Leonardo's young assistants to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who commissioned the work. Ross King's new book is both a record of Leonardo da Vinci's last five years in Milan and a 'biography' of one of the most famous works of art ever painted.
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2017., General, Simon & Schuster Call No: Bio V767i Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history's most creative genius"--Provided by publisher.
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1965., Harper & Row Publishers Call No: 920.045 P734r Edition: 1st Harper Torchbook ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harper torchbooks
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2006., Atria Books Call No: Fic Sie Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sent by Pope Alejandro VI to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's The Last Supper at the beginning of 1497, Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the master artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that a mysterious message has been coded into the painting.
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[1966], Time, inc. Call No: 759.5 L581w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Time-Life library of art