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Leonardo da Vinci Papeback -
by Charles Nicholl
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In this widely acclaimed biography, Charles Nicholl uncovers the man behind the myth of the "Renaissance master," tracing the journey from an illegitimate child in Tuscany to his service with some of the most powerful families of Renaissance Europe.
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- Title Leonardo da Vinci
- Author Charles Nicholl
- Binding Papeback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 640
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books , New York
- Date pp. 448
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6665697
- ISBN 9780143036128 / 0143036122
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.5 x 1.24 in (21.44 x 13.97 x 3.15 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all the manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an 'intimate portrait' of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made myriad small discoveries about him and his work and his circle of associates. Among much else, the book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, on his homosexual affairs in Florence, and on his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. A masterpiece of modern biography.
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Half a millennium ago the surroundings were not so very different.
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- New York Times, 01/29/2006, Page 24