Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master
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Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts. Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man -- is a perennial source of fascination. His astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about both the natural and man-made world influenced his numerous works of art, theories, and sentiments -- all of which were kept in his voluminous notebooks. This book is a collection of da Vinci's intricately detailed artistic and intellectual pursuits, and highlights the classic pieces of art he produced in connection with his writings. Leonardo's Notebooks provides a fascinating look into da Vinci's most private world, and sorts his wide range of interests into subjects such as human figures, light and shade, perspective and visual perception, anatomy, botany and landscape, geography, the physical sciences and astronomy, architecture, inventions and so much more. Exploring this image-filled book is as close to reading da Vinci's diaries as we can get. Organized and curated by art historian H. Anna Suh, she provides fascinating commentary and insight into the material, making Leonardo's Notebooks an exquisite single-volume compendium celebrating his enduring brilliance. Review: Leonardo’s Notebooks - Excellent Review: Amazing book - If you love Leonardo Da Vinci this is a must have book.
| Best Sellers Rank | 150,161 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 74 in Renaissance Art 90 in Engineer Biographies 109 in Individual Artist Books |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 642 Reviews |
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Leonardo’s Notebooks
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Amazing book
If you love Leonardo Da Vinci this is a must have book.
B**1
Perfect collection
Unbelievably impressed with the layout and material included within the book. After searching through reviews this definitely lived up to the good reviews posted previously.
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Quality.
Lovely book.
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Great pages made with good paper
Excellent book for a fantastic price !
R**D
A superb little book.
A fantastic little book packed with wonders. Not the type of book you can just sit a read, but a great reference.
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Five Stars
Very nice book and excellent design and material matching the contents!
L**Y
... opened yet but i am sure my daughter will love it on christmas
Not opened yet but i am sure my daughter will love it on christmas morning
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Five Stars
Most interesting read. Loads of wisdom.
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A fine way to see into Leonardo's thinking process
This wonderful book (which is also very inexpensive) is an outstanding way to understand how Leonardo saw, studied, examined the world and his beginning to develop a (never completed) series of books on painting, architecture, and other major topics. He sometimes talks to himself in his notes, sometimes addresses a potential student or apprentice. Sometimes he argues mutually opposing views on (presumably) different occasions. You begin to comprehend his relentless quest for understanding of all things in the world. The flexi binding is beautifully done, with elegant curved page edges. The sepia or b/w reproductions are very good. I have only one wish to improve this fine book: to know the codex from which each excerpt was taken. In that way one could infer how his thinking, seen in these notes grouped by this skilled editor together, is from one codex (and so likely done in a short period of time) or are from many different times and places.
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Ein wunderschönes Buch!
Leonardo's Notebooks ist ganz einfach reizend. Es kombiniert Leonardo Da Vinci's Entwürfe und Zeichnungen mit seine Notizen, die bisher in seine viele Notizbücher durcheinander standen. Jetzt sind sie alle die entsprechende Zeichnungen zusammen gestellt. Ein wunderschön illustrierter Umschlag under Seiten von schwere Kwalität mit sehr scharfe Illustrationen vervollkommnen diese Ausgabe.
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Very detailed information about Leonardo's way of seeing and thinking
Amazing book. Everyone should read it
A**L
Amazing Book , Fast shipping and in mint condition.
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1579128173/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_0 Just got my order , the book cover is different from the picture but the content is all the same. Amazing book. thank you so much. 5/5
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