ITALIAN

Leonardo - I Codici

By Carlo Pedretti , Marco Cianchi

Book information

Publisher
Giunti
Year
1995
Language
italian
Format
PDF
Filesize
42 MB (43933321 bytes)
Series
Art dossier Giunti
Pages
49\49
Topic
Art Graphic Arts
Time added
2015-08-21 13:32:19
Искусство и искусствоведение;Изобразительное искус

Description

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of «unquenchable curiosity» and «feverishly inventive imagination». He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and «his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote». Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.

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