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The Young Leonardo - Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Hardcover)
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The Young Leonardo - Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Hardcover)
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Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the 'transcendent genius',
removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to
understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J.
Feinberg explores Leonardo's origins and the beginning of his
career as an artist. While celebrating his many artistic
achievements, the book illuminates his debt to other artists' works
and his struggles to gain and retain patronage, as well as his
career and personal difficulties. Feinberg examines the range of
Leonardo's interests, including aerodynamics, anatomy, astronomy,
botany, geology, hydraulics, optics, and warfare technology, to
clarify how the artist's broad intellectual curiosity informed his
art. Situating the artist within the political, social, cultural,
and artistic context of mid- and late-fifteenth-century Florence,
Feinberg shows how this environment influenced Leonardo's artistic
output and laid the groundwork for the achievements of his mature
works.
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