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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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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
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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: Flights of the Mind
2004, Viking Penguin
in English
- 1st American ed
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Leonardo da Vinci: flights of the mind
2004, Viking Penguin
in English
- 1st American ed.
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Leonardo da Vinci: the flights of the mind
2004, Allen Lane, Penguin Group, Gardners Books
in English
0713994932 9780713994933
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Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind: A Biography
November 18, 2004, Viking Adult
Hardcover
in English
0670033456 9780670033454
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LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FLIGHTS OF THE MIND.
Publish date unknown, ALLEN LANE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-580) and index.
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"Half a millennium ago the surroundings were not so very different."
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