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Item Details
| Title:
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
ORIGINS OF A GENIUS |
| By: |
David Alan Brown |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£37.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300072465 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300072464 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
17 August, 1998 |
| Pages: |
248 |
| Description: |
This study looks at Leonardo's beginnings as an artist from his years in the Florentine workshop of sculptor, Andrea del Verrocchio, to his first paintings. The author scrutinizes Leonardo's works and brings them into relation to each other and to their sources. |
| Synopsis: |
This beautiful book presents the most complete account ever written of Leonardo's mysterious beginnings as an artist. David Alan Brown begins by examining Leonardo's first years in the Florentine workshop of the leading sculptor of the day, Andrea del Verrocchio, and then examines the paintings Leonardo completed in the early 1470s. Brown's book is a revealing and imaginative glimpse into the origins of Leonardo's sublime genius. |
| Illustrations: |
95 colour plates, 75 b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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