Becoming Leonardo: An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci
por Mike Lankford
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Very Fine/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1612195954
- ISBN 13
- 9781612195957
- Livreiro
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Poulsbo, Washington, United States
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found Mr. Lankford's writing thought-provoking and Mr. Isaacson's thought-stifling.Mr.Lankford proposes a great many insights...With immediacy and grace, Becoming Leonardo starts on a high note and gets better to the very end.-- WALL STREET JOURNALA Wall Street Journal 2017 Book of the Year
A Spectator 2017 Book of the YearWhy did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines for the notorious Borgias? Why did he carry the Mona Lisa with him everywhere he went for decades, yet never quite finish it? Why did he write backwards, and was he really at war with Michelangelo? And was he gay? In a book unlike anything ever written about the Renaissance genius, Mike Lankford explodes every cliché about Da Vinci and then reconstructs him based on a rich trove of available evidence--bringing to life for the modern reader the man who has been studied by scholars for centuries, yet has remained as mysterious as ever. Seeking to envision Da Vinci without the obscuring residue of historical varnish, the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of Renaissance Italy--usually missing in other biographies--are all here, transporting readers back to a world of war and plague and court intrigue, of viciously competitive famous artists, of murderous tyrants with exquisite tastes in art .... Lankford brilliantly captures Da Vinci's life as the compelling and dangerous adventure it seems to have actually been--fleeing from one sanctuary to the next, somehow surviving in war zones beside his friend Machiavelli, struggling to make art his way or no way at all ... and often paying dearly for those decisions. It is a thrilling and absorbing journey into the life of a ferociously dedicated loner, whose artwork in one way or another represents his noble rebellion, providing inspiration that is timeless.
A Spectator 2017 Book of the YearWhy did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines for the notorious Borgias? Why did he carry the Mona Lisa with him everywhere he went for decades, yet never quite finish it? Why did he write backwards, and was he really at war with Michelangelo? And was he gay? In a book unlike anything ever written about the Renaissance genius, Mike Lankford explodes every cliché about Da Vinci and then reconstructs him based on a rich trove of available evidence--bringing to life for the modern reader the man who has been studied by scholars for centuries, yet has remained as mysterious as ever. Seeking to envision Da Vinci without the obscuring residue of historical varnish, the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of Renaissance Italy--usually missing in other biographies--are all here, transporting readers back to a world of war and plague and court intrigue, of viciously competitive famous artists, of murderous tyrants with exquisite tastes in art .... Lankford brilliantly captures Da Vinci's life as the compelling and dangerous adventure it seems to have actually been--fleeing from one sanctuary to the next, somehow surviving in war zones beside his friend Machiavelli, struggling to make art his way or no way at all ... and often paying dearly for those decisions. It is a thrilling and absorbing journey into the life of a ferociously dedicated loner, whose artwork in one way or another represents his noble rebellion, providing inspiration that is timeless.
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- Livreiro
- Lemolo Books (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 675
- Título
- Becoming Leonardo: An Exploded View of the Life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Autor
- Mike Lankford
- Formato/Encadernação
- Small tear on bottom edge of dust jacket on binding
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Fine
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Good+
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1612195954
- ISBN 13
- 9781612195957
- Editorial
- Melville House
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 2017-03
- Páginas
- 304
- Palavras-chave
- Leonardo, art, life, da vinci,
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Non Fiction Books;
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