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Leonardo - A Restless Genius (Hardcover)
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Leonardo - A Restless Genius (Hardcover)
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A visionary scientist, a supreme painter, a man of eccentricity and
ambition: Leonardo da Vinci had many lives. Born from a fleeting
affair between a country girl and a young notary, Leonardo was
never legitimized by his father and received no formal education.
While this freedom from the routine of rigid and codified learning
may have served to stimulate his natural creativity, it also caused
many years of suffering and an insatiable need to prove his own
worth. It was a striving for glory and an obsessive thirst for
knowledge that prompted Leonardo to seek the protection and favour
of the most powerful figures of his day, from Lorenzo de' Medici to
Ludovico Sforza, from the French governors of Milan to the pope in
Rome, where he could vie for renown with Michelangelo and Raphael.
In this revelatory account, Antonio Forcellino draws on his
expertise - both as historian and as restorer of some of the
world's greatest works of art - to give us a more detailed view of
Leonardo than ever before. Through careful analyses of his
paintings and compositional technique, down to the very materials
used, Forcellino offers fresh insights into Leonardo's artistic and
intellectual development. He spans the great breadth of Leonardo's
genius, discussing his contributions to mechanics, optics, anatomy,
geology and metallurgy, as well as providing acute psychological
observations about the political dynamics and social contexts in
which Leonardo worked. Forcellino sheds new light on a life all too
often overshadowed and obscured by myth, providing us with a fresh
perspective on the personality and motivations of one of the
greatest geniuses of Western culture.
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