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Leonardo da Vinci and The Virgin of the Rocks - One Painter, Two Virgins, Twenty-Five Years (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Leonardo da Vinci and The Virgin of the Rocks - One Painter, Two Virgins, Twenty-Five Years (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This is the first book dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci's commission
for The Virgin of the Rocks. Leonardo completed fewer than twenty
paintings in his lifetime, yet he returned twice to this same
mysterious subject over the course of a twenty-five year period.
Identical in terms of iconography, stylistically these paintings
are worlds apart. The first, of c.1482-4, was Leonardo's magnum
opus, catapulting the young artist from obscurity to fame. When, in
1508, he finished the second painting, he was nearing the end of
his artistic career and had become an international celebrity. Why
did he revisit The Virgin of the Rocks? What was the meaning behind
the cavernous subterranean landscape? What lies behind the colder
monumentality of the second version?This book opens up Leonardo's
world, setting the scene in Republican Florence and the humanist
court of the Milanese warlord Ludovico Sforza, to answer these
questions. Through lyrical yet scholarly analyses of Leonardo's
paintings, notebooks and technical experimentation, it unveils the
secret realms of human dissection and Neo-Platonic philosophy that
inspired the creation of the two masterpieces. In doing so, the
book reveals that The Virgin of the Rocks holds the key to the
greatest philosophical, scientific and personal transformations of
Leonardo's life.Images and links to figures are available at
www.virginoftherocks.com.
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