Fables of Leonardo Da Vinci

Text: English, Italian (translation)

Fables of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo

Collins

Leonardo da Vinci's fantastic animals

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Leonardo’s writings on painting―among the most remarkable from any era―were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources, some of which were here translated for the first time. The resulting volume is an invaluable reference work for art historians as well as for anyone interested in the mind and methods of one of the world’s greatest creative geniuses.“Highly readable. . . . Also included are documentary sources and letters illuminating Leonardo’s career; the manuscript sources for all of Leonardo’s statements are fully cited in the notes. The volume is skillfully translated and is illustrated with appropriate examples of drawings and paintings by the artist.”―Choice“Certainly easier to read and . . . more convenient than previous compilations.”―Charles Hope, New York Review of Books“A chaotic assemblage of Leonardo da Vinci’s writings appeared in 1651 as Treatise on Painting. . . . [Kemp] successfully applies . . . order to the chaos.”―ArtNews

Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings

Arts & Photography

Kemp, Martin

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

An awe-inspiring fusion of science and art, this magnificent single-volume reference features more than 130 ground-breaking anatomical illustrations by history's most brilliant artists. Dramatic and highly studied sketches dating back to the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, these images by Leonardo da Vinci, Bartolommeo Eustachius, Andreas Vesalius, Bernard Albinus, and Pietro da Cortona have given our modern world an unsurpassed appreciation and understanding of the human body. Meticulous portraits of our amazing flesh-and-blood machinery — many accompanied by the artists' original, handwritten notes — these time-honored renderings offer important glimpses into the human organism, both inside and out. Art lovers, as well as students of science and medicine, will thrill to these classic adaptations of muscles, limbs, skeletons, nervous and respiratory systems, and other perspectives that, centuries later, remain masterworks of anatomical artistry.

Classic Anatomical Illustrations (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Vesalius

Albinus

Dover Publications

Leonardo da Vinci;

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Phaidon

Fantastic tales, strange animals, riddles, jests, and prophecies of Leonardo da Vinci

T. Nelson

Some of Leonardo da Vinci's thoughts on anatomy, motions and emotions, historical compositions, draperies, color, and landscapes are presented from his notebooks. Da Vinci's illustrations accompany text.

Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle

Metropolitan Museum of Art

An exhibit in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles only during the Bicentennial. The full range of his (da Vinci) talent and interest can be seen, as nowhere else, in the drawings--around six hundred in all--belonging to The Queen and preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

Leonardo da Vinci, anatomical drawings from the Queen's Collection at Windsor Castle

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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