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The Da Vinci legacy, how an elusive 16th-century artist became a global pop icon, Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Heath Brown

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314)

individual biography

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

The Da Vinci legacy

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1099681669

Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Heath Brown

how an elusive 16th-century artist became a global pop icon

"The traditional view of Leonardo da Vinci's career is that he enjoyed a promising start in Florence and then moved to Milan to become the celebrated court artist of Duke Ludovico Sforza. Young Leonardo proves all of this wrong. It reveals how the struggling painter was repeatedly snubbed by the prevailing trends of Florentine style before escaping to Milan empty-handed. But Milan offered little more; Sforza's patronage was lukewarm, to say the least, and all the major commissions went to artists whose names are now forgotten. How did the amateur become one of the all-time greatest masters? Slowly, meticulously, disastrously. Focusing on an often neglected period in Leonardo's life, here is a fascinating window into the artist's mind as he develops the techniques that will transform Western art forever. Because before there could be a Last Supper, a Mona Lisa, a St. Anne, there had to be a young Leonardo"--, Provided by publisher

Leonardo in Amboise -- The legacy of Leonardo's studio -- The Leonardeschi after Leonardo -- Leonardo and the artists of the High Renaissance -- Leonardo in the literature of the 16th century -- The Leonardo legend and the art of engraving -- The Mona Lisa and the Last Supper in the Baroque era -- Leonardo's legacy in the 19th century -- Leonardo's legacy in the 20th century -- The legacy of Leonardo