Inventing LeonardoAs he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo's relevance to our own ways of perceiving and interpreting the world. |
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Procura do Utilizador - KirkusA clever conceit—how each century creates its own version of Leonardo, revealing truths about both the painter and the evolution of culture—artfully constructed. Turner (Fine Arts/NYU) begins with ... Ler crítica na íntegra
Inventing Leonardo
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Leonardo the Harbinger of Modernity | 132 |
The Triumph of the EyeI | 155 |
Chapter Io Possessing the World | 173 |
The Body as Nature and Culture | 191 |
A Blessed Rage for Order | 210 |
14922019 | 235 |
Index | 257 |
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Alberti anatomy artist battle Battle of Anghiari beauty body Bossi century copy cultural death divine drawings earlier engraved essay evoked expression figures Florence Florentine Francesco French Freud Giorgio Vasari Giuseppe Bossi Goethe grotesque heads hand human idea ideal images imagination intellectual invented Italian Italy knowledge La Gioconda landscape Last Supper later Leonardo da Vinci living Louvre machine Madonna and Child master mathematics Michelangelo Michelet Milan Milanese mind modern Mona Lisa mountains mural mystery nardo nature notebooks notion object observation painter painting Palazzo della Signoria Paris passage passions Pater perspective picture portrait probably published Quinet Raphael Renaissance reveal rocks Rome Royal Library Saint Anne Saint John scientific Séailles seems seen sense shadows story suggests T. S. Eliot things thought tions tradition treatise Uffizi understanding Valéry Vasari Verrocchio visual Windsor words writing wrote
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Página 130 - 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 Saint Anne, the mother of Mary...
Página 129 - ... 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 120 - Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake,' ' has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Página 121 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face ; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, — for that moment only.
Página 6 - Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living.
Página 129 - 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...
Página 131 - ... 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 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...
Página 114 - ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI, IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY. IT lieth, gazing on the midnight sky, Upon the cloudy mountain peak supine ; Below, far lands are seen tremblingly ; Its horror and its beauty are divine. Upon its lips and eyelids seems to lie Loveliness like a shadow, from which shine, Fiery and lurid, struggling underneath, The agonies of anguish and of death.
Página 123 - Tuscan dwelling — half castle, half farm — and are as true to nature as the pretended astonishment of the father for whom the boy has prepared a surprise. It was not in play that he painted that other Medusa, the one great picture which he left behind him in Florence. The subject has been treated in various ways; Leonardo alone cuts to its centre ; he alone realises it as the head of a corpse, exercising its powers through all the circumstances of death.
Página 124 - From childhood we see this image defining itself on the fabric of his dreams ; and but for express historical testimony, we might fancy that this was but his ideal lady, embodied and beheld at last. What was the relationship of a living Florentine to this creature of his thought ? By what strange affinities had she and the dream grown thus apart, yet so closely together...
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Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Inventing Leonardo Art history/Cultural studies |
| Autores | A. Richard Turner, Leonardo (da Vinci) |
| Edição | reimpressão |
| Editora | University of California Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0520089383, 9780520089389 |
| Número de páginas | 268 páginas |
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