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Leonardo

The Artist and the Man

Serge Bramly author Siân Reynolds translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:1st Mar '95

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With the aid of Leonardo da Vinci's note books, as well as a wide variety of sources, this biography covers the full life of the great Renaissance painter and architect. It is an account of Leonardo, both as an artist and as an individual. The book charts the artist's family background, childhood and apprenticeship, successes and failures, patronage, travels, interests and friendships. The book include b&w reproductions of paintings and sketchings by da Vinci. All surviving paintings are listed in the text, and there are family trees of Leonardo's family.

"A considerable work of assimilative scholarship and common sense...races along merrily."The Boston Globe.

"Bramly has dusted off the primary sources to make da Vinci a startlingly prescient, relevant figure in this exceptional biography." -- Publishers Weekly

"French novelist and biographer Bramly offers the image of a gifted, methodical, rational, emotionally simple craftsman whose personal life remains wrapped in mysteries—some intentional and others, such as the loss of his grave and many of his works, the results of time and circumstance." -- Kirkus Reviews

ISBN: 9780140231755

Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 36mm

Weight: 584g

528 pages