Leonardo Da Vinci, Selected Scholarship: Leonardo's projects, c. 1500-1519

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Taylor & Francis, 1999 - 412 páginas
Also available as the third book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)
 

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Índice

Leonardos Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo
243
The Burlington House Cartoon
268
A Rediscovered Cartoon by Leonardo da Vinci
276
A New Facet of Leonardos Working Procedure
287
ITALY AND FRANCE
314
Problems and Implications
382
The Mysterious Meaning of Leonardos Saint John the Baptist
391
Salai and Leonardos Legacy
397

Mona Lisa
210
Observations on the Mona Lisa Landscape
225

Palavras e frases frequentes

Passagens conhecidas

Página 214 - All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there, in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the reverie of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.
Página 391 - The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Página 214 - Hers is the head upon which all ' the ends of the world are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed...
Página 214 - She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants; and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as...
Página 214 - ... the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.
Página 189 - ... than it is: the nose, with its beautiful and delicately roseate nostrils, might be easily believed to be alive ; the mouth, admirable in its outline, has the lips uniting the rose-tints of their colour with that of the face, in the utmost perfection, and the carnation of the cheek does not appear to be painted, but truly of flesh and blood ; he who looks earnestly at the pit of the throat cannot but believe that he sees the beating of the pulses...
Página 189 - Leonardo was painting her portrait, he took the precaution of keeping some one constantly near her, to sing or play on instruments, or to jest and otherwise amuse her, to the end that she might continue cheerful, and so that her face might not exhibit the melancholy expression often imparted by painters to the likenesses they take. In this portrait of Leonardo's on the contrary there is so pleasing an expression, and a smile so sweet, that while looking at it one thinks it rather divine than human,...
Página 192 - O marvellous Necessity, thou with supreme reason constrainest all effects to be the direct result of their causes, and by a supreme and irrevocable law every natural action obeys thee by the shortest possible process...
Página 193 - Which of these Natures he saw as he drew his sketches, there is now no saying. But the probability is that most of his contemporaries saw in the sketches after they were drawn the capriciously creative and fertile Nature rather than the mechanistic and purely geometrical. For a hundred or more years after Vasari there is little or no mention of the Mona Lisa. According to the French historian, Lemonnier,12 Leonardo and his Italian confreres who were called to France by Francis I "furent traites avec...

Acerca do autor (1999)

Claire Farago has been Associate Professor of Renaissance Art at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1995, and in 1998 was Art Council Chair Visiting Professor at UCLA.

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