Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519 : the complete paintings
Frank Zöllner (Author), Leonardo (Artist), Johannes Nathan (Contributor)
Stroke of Genius. The complete painted oeuvre of Leonardo da Vinci. The paintings of a renaissance master Inventor, painter, sculptor, scientist, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was nothing short of a quintessential Renaissance genius. No other artist of his generation has left behind such an extensive, authentic, and innovative oeuvre yet Leonardo remains the most enigmatic of them all. From the beguiling Last Supper to the showstopping Mona Lisa, discover the complete painted oeuvre of one of history's most insatiable creative masters. This collection draws from our extensive best-selling XXL edition, one of the most complete explorations of Leonardo to date, to trace his life and work across 10 chapters. All known paintings are featured, gathering some of the finest treasures of the Louvre, Prado, and National Gallery, as well as works lost to time, but no less startling in their precision and poise. This definitive volume is complete with crisp details, accessible essays situating Leonardo's approach within its socio-cultural context and pictorial traditions of the time, the latest scientific insights, as well as an updated foreword that illuminates one of the most sensational art historical discoveries of our time: the record-breaking Salvator Mundi
Catalogs
271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 34 cm
9783836569828, 3836569825
1035015516
Preface
Leonardo da Vinci
life and work. The young artist in Florence 1469-1480
Professional breakthrough in Florence 1480-1482
A fresh start in Milan 1483-1484
Beginnings as court artist in Milan 1485-1494
The artist and "science"
From the Last supper to the fall of Ludovico Sforza 1495-1499
From Mantua to Venice and back to Florence 1500-1503
Leonardo in Florence: battle paintings and "muscular rhetoric" 1504-1506
Between Florence and Milan 1506-1510
The last years
Catalogue raisonné of the paintings
Annexes
Previous edition: 2003
"The references to the catalogue of drawings relate to TASCHEN's edition of the collected works of Leonardo (Zöllner/Nathan 2015)."