Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind

A Biography

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Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind

A Biography

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Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all the manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an 'intimate portrait' of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made myriad small discoveries about him and his work and his circle of associates. Among much else, the book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, on his homosexual affairs in Florence, and on his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. A masterpiece of modern biography.

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Viking Adult
Language
English
Pages
640

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Cover of: Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci
2010, Penguin Group UK
eBook in English
Cover of: Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci: Die Biographie
Aug 01, 2009, FISCHER Taschenbuch
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Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
November 29, 2005, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: Leonardo. El vuelo de la mente (Leonardo da Vinci : Flights of the Mind)
Leonardo. El vuelo de la mente (Leonardo da Vinci : Flights of the Mind)
October 1, 2005, Taurus
Paperback in Spanish
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Leonardo Da Vinci
April 7, 2005, Penguin Books Ltd, Penguin Books
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Leonardo da Vinci: the flights of the mind
2004, Allen Lane, Penguin Group, Gardners Books
in English
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Leonardo da Vinci: flights of the mind
2004, Viking Penguin
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind: A Biography
November 18, 2004, Viking Adult
Hardcover in English
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Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
2004, Viking Penguin
in English - 1st American ed
Cover of: LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FLIGHTS OF THE MIND.
LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FLIGHTS OF THE MIND.
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First Sentence

"Half a millennium ago the surroundings were not so very different."

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
640
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.4 x 2 inches
Weight
2.2 pounds

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OL7641268M
ISBN 10
0670033456
ISBN 13
9780670033454
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13518
Goodreads
572772

First Sentence

"Half a millennium ago the surroundings were not so very different."

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