Da Vinci's Ghost [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Toby Lester
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1847658067
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 741.092 Persons treatment
• Thông tin xuất bản: London : Profile, 2011
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (370 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 71871
• Chủ đề: 1. Electronic books; 2. Leonardo, da Vinci,--Criticism and interpretation--1452-1519; 3. Leonardo, da Vinci,--1452-1519; 4. Leonardo, da Vinci,--Vitruvian man--1452-1519

Tóm tắt

Vitruvian Man is the world's most famous drawing, by one of the world's most famous artists. The image - named after a Roman architect and engineer, Vitruvius - has become visual shorthand for artistic genius and scientific inquiry, and yet nobody knows anything about it. In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester examines the forces that converged in 1490 to turn an idea that had been around for centuries into this image, and bring the ghost of an unknown Leonardo da Vinci back to life. Rooted in little-known episodes of the artist's colourful career, and taking in ideas