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The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

By Leonardo da Vinci , Irma A. Richter

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1999
ISBN
0192838970, 9780192838971
Open Library ID
OL81501M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1051616 bytes)
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Volume
volume 1
Pages
526\526
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13

Description

A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third-the picture of the Last Supper at Milan-has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance has become so wellknown and popular through copies of every description.

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