WRITTEN IN FRENCH
Leonardo da Vinci was a genius painter, an exceptional designer and inventor who developed flying machines as well as war and entertainment machines ahead of their time. The observation of nature, of plants like water, of human bodies and faces, coupled with an infinite curiosity...
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WRITTEN IN FRENCH
Leonardo da Vinci was a genius painter, an exceptional designer and inventor who developed flying machines as well as war and entertainment machines ahead of their time. The observation of nature, of plants like water, of human bodies and faces, coupled with an infinite curiosity, made him the perfect ideal of the Renaissance, at the same time as an artist of modernity unsuspected.
It is the visionary dimension of Vinci's inventions and art that this superbly illustrated work highlights. It delves deeper, thanks to the artist's numerous drawings taken from codices and notebooks, into the method of this engineer whose ambition was to decipher the rhythms and laws of the shaking of the world. His formidable intuitions shook up the history of art; his dreams, his personality and his itinerary through Italy and France still fascinate...
With more than 300 illustrations and facsimiles including: Leonardo da Vinci's letter to Ludovico le More in Milan, sketches and technical drawings taken from codices, astronomical studies, the plan of the city of Imola, etc.
French
128 pages
Éditions Larousse
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