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LEONARDO DA VINCI; Flights of the Mind / A Biography
by Nicholl, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670033456
- ISBN 13
- 9780670033454
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. Photos; paintings, B&W images. Tall thick 8vo, gold quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine and "CN" stamped in gold on white (front) of boards, illustrated with 14 full color glossy paintings on 8 pages plus many B&W in-text Leonardo-related images, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting detail from Da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi," xiv + 6622, [623] pages. Charles Nicholl (born 1950) is an English author specializing in works of history, biography, literary detection, travel and documentaries. His subjects have included Christopher Marlowe, Arthur Rimbaud, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Nashe and William Shakespeare. One of the finer scholarly books on Leonardo Da Vinci (that I have read). Nicholl has an astonishing command of clarfyng detal. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: tight, bright, clean in comparable dust jacket.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4861
- Title
- LEONARDO DA VINCI; Flights of the Mind / A Biography
- Author
- Nicholl, Charles
- Illustrator
- Photos; paintings, B&W images
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670033456
- ISBN 13
- 9780670033454
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Invention, Florence, art, science, hydraulics, war, weapons, genius, Renaissance
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