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Parleransi li omini di remotissimi paesi l'uno all'altro e risponderansi"  

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    Leonardo: The Artist and the Man
by Serge Bramly, Sian Reynolds (Translator)
Paperback, 493 pages
Published by Penguin USA
Publication date: Mar 1995

First published in France, Serge Bramly's acclaimed biography reveals Leonardo to be as complicated, seductive, and profoundly sympathetic as the figures he painted. Bramly spent five years gathering evidence to reconstruct the artist's life--from his early years as an illegitimate child to his death in the arms of the King of France. Four pages of color photographs; 75 B&W photos.
       

 

    Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings
Frank Zollner;Hardcover;Usually ships within 24 hours; Buy New: $130.99
Lying open, this unutterably wonderful book is almost the size of the Mona Lisa and about as hefty as a slab of The Last Supper's monastery wall. All 34 paintings are here (including what we know of the lost ones), many with huge and immensely illuminating details, plus 663 drawings. The...
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    Leonardo Da Vinci: Master Draftsman\
by Carmen C. Bambach (Editor), et al
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Artist, theorist, scientist, and inventor--these words cannot capture the genius that is Leonardo DaVinci. However, curator and editor Carmen C. Bambach brings us a little closer to unlocking his mystery in Leonardo DaVinci: Mater Draftsman. The book comprises a collection of 11 essays by... Read more
       
    Leonardo Da Vinci on the Human Body
O'Malley;Hardcover;Usually ships within 24 hours; Buy New: $16.99

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An impressive collection of the works of the noted Renaissance artist and inventor presents his amazingly detailed anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings.

       
      Leonardo's Science and Technology: Essential Readings for the Non-Scientist (Leonardo da Vinci)
Claire Farago;Library Binding; Buy New: $125.00

About the Author
Claire Farago has been Associate Professor of Renaissance Art at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1995, and in 1998 was Art Council Chair Visiting Professor at UCLA.

       

 

    Leonardo
Trewin Copplestone;Hardcover;Usually ships within 24 hours; Buy New: $9.99

Ingram
Here is an exclusive and brand-new jacketed, hardcover art series with a format that means value! The world's most famous artists are highlighted in these concise and vibrantly colorful volumes. Each book in the series contains 80 pages of full-color reproductions along with authoritative text about the featured artist. A perfect souvenir for museum visits and a special gift for all art lovers.

       

 

    Leonardo Da Vinci: Origins of a Genius
by David Alan Brown
Hardcover, 248 pages
Published by Yale univ Press
Publication date: Oct 1998 

This beautiful book is the first full-length study of Leonardo's beginnings as an artist. It discusses his years in Verrocchio's workshop and his subsequent work on his own, the development of his technique, and the relationship of his early paintings to each other and to their source.
       

 

    Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings
by Rachel Kaplan, Pietro C. Marani
Hardcover, 384 pages
Published by harry N. Abrams, Incorporated
Publication date: Nov 2000 

This magisterial work-the most exquisite and luxuriously produced art monograph of the season-will immediately be recognized as the seminal volume on the paintings of the great Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Not only does the quality of the reproductions far surpass those in previous books, but every one of Leonardo's magnificent paintings is included, along with preparatory drawings and studies for his most famous works, and a text by one of the world's leading experts on Leonardo.
       

 

    Leonardo: A Portrait of the Renaissance Man
by Roger Whiting
Paperback, 192 pages
Published by Knickerbocker Pr
Publication date: Apr 1998 

An illustrated biography of the original Renaissance man traces the accomplishments of Leonardo da Vinci--artist, inventor, engineer, architect, and writer. Illustrated with Leonardo's own work.
       

 

    Prophecies
by Leonardo Da Vinci, Eraldo Affinati
Paperback
Published by Hesperus Press
Publication date: Jan 2003 

The greatest genius of his age, Leonardo da Vinci penned an extraordinary number of writings. In this unique new collection are some of his most remarkable thoughts, sayings and fables. Fascinated by word play, Leonardo created a series of riddles, cleverly disguised as apocalyptic prophecies and fantasies...
       
       

 

    Leonardo Da Vinci
by Jack Wasserman
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published by Harry N Abrams
Publication date: Sep 1984
       

 

    Leonardo da Vinci (Masters of Art)
Jack Wasserman;Paperback; Buy New: $13.97

Book Description
Continuously in print for more than 20 years, Abrams' Masters of Art series has always been known for its exceptional quality and value. Now these classic volumes devoted to the lives and works of the world's great painters have been newly redesigned and released in paperback for the first time.

       

 

    Inventing Leonardo
by Leonardo, Richard A. Turner
Paperback, 268 pages
Published by Univ California Press
Publication date: Oct 1994

"This meticulous, intriguing, richly illustrated study contends that the image of Leonardo da Vinci painter, engineer, inventor, anatomist, and Renaissance man has been fashioned anew in each successive epoch." Publishers Weekly
       

 

    Fortune is a River: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History
by Leonardo, Richard A. Turner
Paperback, 268 pages
Published by Univ California Press
Publication date: Oct 1994

"...a marvelously provocative thesis that ought to generate some discussion ... [H]is portrait of Machiavelli as both genius and libertine, triumphant statesman and humiliated intriguer, are among the most interesting passages of a very interesting book." The New York Times, Richard Bernstein
       

 

    Leonardo Da Vinci: The Mind of Renaissance
by Alessandro Vezzosi, Leonardo
Paperback, 160 pages
Published by Harry N Abrams
Publication date: Dec 1997
       
Shop at Amazon.com     Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo Da Vinci's Legacy of Art and Science
by Trevor Fairbrother, Chiyo Ishikawa
Paperback, 70 pages
Published by University of Washington Press
Publication date: Jan 1998
       

 

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Volume 1
by Leonardo Da Vinci
Paperback, 433 pages
Published by Dover Pubns
Publication date: Sep 1975
       

  

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Volume 2
by Leonardo Da Vinci
Paperback, 433 pages
Published by Dover Pubns
Publication date: Sep 1975
       

  

    Leonardo Da Vinci, the Divine and the Grotesque: Drawings from the Royal Collection
by Martin Clayton
Hardcover, 168  pages
Published by Thames & Hudson 
Publication date: Nov 2002

Leonardo da Vinci's studies of physiognomy, the divinely beautiful and the grotesquely ugly, are some of the most idiosyncratic and fascinating works ever produced by this archetypal genius. This book looks in detail at eighty examples of Leonardo's drawings from the unrivaled collection preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, and is the first work on the subject aimed at a general audience. In his introductory essay, Martin Clayton explores the roots of Leonardo's life-long urge to create such drawings...
       
    Leonardo da Vinci
by V. P. Zubov
       
    Leonardo da Vinci
by Daniel Arasse
Hardcover, 560 pages
Published by
Publication date: Sep 1998

Daniel Arasse's remarkable study won the prestigious Malraux Prize in 1997 for the finest new art book published in France. This is the first English language edition. In it the author examines every facet of an artist whose prodigious achievements transcended the bounds of any one discipline.
       

  

    Leonardo da Vinci: A Singular Vision: Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen
by Martin Clayton
PapHardcover, 168 pages
Published by Abbeville Promotional
Publication date: Jan 1998
       

  

    Leonardo da Vinci (The Library of Great Masters)
by Leonardo da Vinci, Bruno Santi
Paperback
Published by Riverside Book
Publication date: Nov 1994
       
 

  

    Leonardo da Vinci: Nature Studies from the Royal Library
by Carlo Pedrelli
Paperback
Published by Seven Hills Book
Publication date: May 1991
       
 

  

    Leonardo da Vinci: The Man and the Mystery
by Anna Rosstad
Hardcover
Published by Intl Specialized Book Service
Publication date: Aug 1995
       
 

  

    Leonardo da Vinci's Sforza Monument Horse: The Art and the Engineering
by Diane Cole Ahl (Editor)
Hardcover
Published by Lehigh Univ Pr
Publication date: Nov 1995
       

 

    Leonardo Da Vinci
by Leonardo, Kenneth Clark, Martin Kemp
Paperback
Published by Penguin USA
Publication date: Jun 1993

Clark's study of Leonardo is generally considered the clearest introduction available to the work of the controversial genius. This edition contains 128 plates, integrated into the text; a revised list of dates; an updated bibliography; and a new introduction.
       

  

    Leonardo da Vinci: The Daedalian Mythmaker
by Giancarlo Maiorino
Hardcover, 306 pages
Published by Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Trade)
Publication date: Aug 1992
       
    DK Art Books: Leonardo da Vinci
Paperback, 144 pages
Published by DK Publishing
Publication date: May 1999

A beautiful new series of art books to treasure. DK introduces a new series of lavishly illustrated paperback books on major artists and their works. Each volume tells the story of a single artist with a look at the artist's life and times, the historical and social context in which they worked, and an analysis of their masterpieces.
       

 

    The Writings and Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci : Order and Chaos in Early Modern Thought
by Robert Zwijnenberg
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date: Mar 1999

This study is an effort to understand why writing and drawing were so important to Leonardo da Vinci, who, over the course of his lifetime, filled about 15,000 pages with texts and images. Focusing on the fragmentary and chaotic character of his notes, Robert Zwijnenberg also examines the influence of important cultural developments during the Italian Renaissance, as well as the work of fellow intellectuals such as Cusanus, Alberti, Taccola, and Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Zwijnenberg's study sheds new light on linear perspective and anatomy, the artist's most favored fields of study.
       

 

    Leonardo Da Vinci: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives)
by Sherwin B. Nuland
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published by Viking Pr
Publication date: Oct 2000

The enigma of the Mona Lisa's smile is not less than the enigma of her creator's life force."In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland (whose own work Time has called "awe-inspiring") completes his twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? How could he be, in the same moment, as naive as a child and as profound as a sage?
       
  Leonardo da Vinci, Della Natura, Peso e Moto Delle Acque: II Codice Leicester
Hardcover
Published by Art Books Intl Ltd
Publication date: Aug 1998
       

  

    Leonardo da Vinci: Dreams, Schemes, and Flying Machines (Adventures in Art)
by Heinz Kaehne
Hardcover, 30 pages
Published by International Book Import Service, Inc
Publication date: Sep 1999

From the Mona Lisa to the first designs for a flying machine, this compelling biography of a well-rounded genius and the prototypical Renaissance man focuses on the da Vinci's full range of interests, from art to anatomy. Original. new series of art books to treasure.
       

  

    Leonardo: The Last Supper
by Federico Zeri
Hardcover, 49 pages
Published by
NDE Canada Corp
Publication date: Nov 1999

This title belongs to the "One Hundred Paintings" series which will become your personal collection. From every painting that author analyzes you will discover aspects that you had ignored but that instead complete to make the work of art a masterpiece.
       

  

    Leonardo: The Last Supper
by Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, Pietro C. Marani
Hardcover, 458 pages
Published by
University of Chicago Press
Publication date: Apr 2001

Leonardo's The Last Supper, painted in tempera on the damp walls of a dining room for the Dominican monks of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan, began falling apart in his lifetime. Five centuries of dust, mildew, and bad treatment (including vandalism by French 18th-century troops, Allied bombs in World War II, and various ham-handed attempts at cleaning and repainting) have only made things worse. The most recent restoration team went about the job with surgical precision, beginning in 1977.

  

    Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist
by Leonardo da Vinci, Otto Letze (Editor)
Paperback
Published by Art Publishers
Publication date: Apr 1997

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      Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power
by Roger D. Masters
Paperback
Published by Univ of Notre Dame Pr
Publication date: Aug 1998

Scientific reasons to go back to Machiavelli
Machiavelli's political theory continues to fascinate (and annoy) readers. This study situates Machiavelli's theories in the light of his cooperation with Leonardo da Vinci (generally unknown), suggests how to read his major works, and surveys modern scientific evidence in favor of Machiavelli's theory of human nature. Given the revolution in modern biology, I argue that Machiavellian realism provides an important corrective to ideologies of the left and right.The author, Roger D. Masters
       
    Leonardo Drawings: 60 Works
by Leonardo Da Vinci
Paperback, 59 pages
Published by Dover Pubns
Publication date: Sep 1983

Leonardo da Vinci--painter, engineer, inventory, mathematician, and architect--he was a Renaissance man in the fullest sense. Over 150 color illustrations--some well known, some obscure--offer glimpses into the inner world of the man who was four centuries ahead of his time.
       
    Leonardo: Painter, Inventor, Visionary, Mathematician, Philosopher, Engineer
by Jean Claude Frere, Jean-Marie Clarke (Translator)
Paperback, 207 pages
Published by Terrail
Publication date: Dec 1995
       

  

    Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci With a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career As an Artist
by Martin Kemp (Editor), Margaret Walker (Translator)
Paperback, 328 pages
Published by Yale univ Pr
Publication date: May 1989
       

  

    Leonardo on the Human Body
by Leonardo Da Vinci
Paperback
Published by Dover Pubns
Publication date: Aug 1983
       
      Leonardo da Vinci As a Musician
by Emanuel Winternitz
       

 

    The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford World's Classics)
by Leonardo Da Vinci, Irma A. Richter (Editor)
Paperback, 430 pages
Published by Oxford Univ Pr (Trade)
Publication date: Dec 1998
       

 

    Leonardo: The First Scientist
by Michael White
Hardcover, 384 pages
Published by St Martins Pr
Publication date: Aug 2000

  When thinking of the archetypal "Renaissance man," Leonardo da Vinci most certainly comes to mind. Painter, sculptor, writer, scientist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher, he was truly a man of his time--and of all ages. White, biographer of other celebrated scientists, focuses on the scientific creations of da Vinci, emphasizing his notebooks, which had been lost for 200 years...From Booklist
       
      Biography and Early Art Criticism of Leonardo Da Vinci (Leonardo De Vinci, 1)
by Claire J. Farago (Editor), Robert Nozick (Editor)
Hardcover
Published by
Brill Academic Publishers
Publication date: Jun 1999
       
    Leonardo Da Vinci: The Last Supper (Rizzoli Quadrifolio)
by Vito Zani
Hardcover, 96 pages
Published Zone Books
Publication date: Sep 2001

  ...the reader is afforded extraordinary details of this quickly deteriorating fresco. Located in a small monastery in Milan, the work has recently been restored so that the delicate faces which register, with great subtlety, the gravity of the moment at which Christ announces to his apostles that one among them will betray him, are visible once again. Every inch of the work is reproduced here in illuminating close-ups so that the masterpiece can be appreciated anew.
       

  

    Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper
by Leo Steinberg
Hardcover, 312 pages
Published by St Martins Pr
Publication date: May 2001

  Original to the point of provocation, veteran art historian Steinberg (The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art), a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, has long been a legendary figure in his field. This fascinating new study is as much about the idea of Leonardo's famous Last Supper in Milan as the actual, ruined painting itself.
       

  

    The Legacy of Leonardo
by Giulio Bora, David Alan Brown
Hardcover, 416  pages
Published by Skira
Publication date: Apr 1999

  The ever increasing art historical attention being paid to the School of Leonardo lies at the root of this volume published almost sixty years after Suida's classic treatment of the subject. This is the first time since then that Lombard art of Leonardesque inspiration has been the object of a systematic analysis embracing a period of around half a century starting from 1490. The essays opening the volume provide an overview dealing with the environment, the organisation and the working...
       
      Last Supper Restoration
by Dan O'Brien
Paperback
Published by Samuel French Inc
Publication date: Jan 1998
       
Leonardo: The Last Supper
by Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich
       

 

    Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519 (Basic Art)
by Frank Zollner
Paperback, 96 pages
Published by
TASCHEN America LIc
Publication date: May 2000
       

  

    Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits
by David Alan Brown, Earl A. Powell
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published by Princeton Univ Pr
Publication date: Oct 2001

This beautifully illustrated and exquisitely designed volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Included are many of the finest portraits of women (and a few of men) by Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Verrocchio, and Leonardo da Vinci--whose remarkable double-sided portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, which departs...
       
     

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Leonardo Da'Vinci,

Paperback: 632 pages

Publisher: Indypublish.Com; (September 2003)

ISBN: 140437339X

 

       
      Leonardo Da Vinci's Paragone: A Critical Interpretation With a New Edition of the Text in the Codex Urbinas (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
by Claire J. Farago
Hardcover
Published by
Brill Academic Publishers
Publication date: Nov 1991

Leonardo da Vinci's arguments for the supremacy of painting over the arts of poetry, music, and sculpture address issues that have been relevant to debates over the nature of representation since the time Plato discussed imitation until today, maintains Claire Farago in this wide-ranging critical analysis of the first important modern contribution to the comparison of the arts. This study systematically examines 46 passages compiled in the mid-sixteenth century from eighteen of Leonardo's notebooks and their relationship to the artist's holograph writings on painting...
       
      An Overview of Leonardo's Career and Projects Until C. 1500 (Leonardo Da Vinci, 2)
by Claire J. Farago (Editor), Robert Nozick (Editor)
Hardcover, 350 pages
Published by
Garland Pub
Publication date: Jun 1999
       
      Leonardo's Projects, C. 1500-1519 (Leonardo Da Vinci, 3)
by Claire J. Farago (Editor), Robert Nozick (Editor)
Hardcover, 350 pages
Published by
Garland Pub
Publication date: Jun 1999
       
      Leonardo's Writings and Theory of Art (Leonardo Da Vinci, 4)
by Claire J. Farago (Editor), Robert Nozick (Editor)
Hardcover, 350 pages
Published by
Garland Pub
Publication date: Jun 1999
       
      Leonardo Da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland: A History of Collecting and Patronage
by Laurie Winters
Hardcover, 350 pages
Published by Milwaukee Art Museum
Publication date: Aug 2002
       
      Leonardo Da Vinci's Advice to Artists
Da Vinci Leonardo;Paperback; Buy New: $9.95

Card catalog description
Some of Leonardo da Vinci's thoughts on anatomy, motions and emotions, historical compositions, draperies, color, and landscapes are presented from his notebooks. Da Vinci's illustrations accompany text.

       
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    The Memory Cathedral: A Secret History of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Jack Dann
Paperback, 486 pages
Published by
Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub
Publication date: Jan 1996

Impeccably researched, The Memory Cathedral is a fine historical work about Leonardo da Vinci, as well as a science fiction story of epic proportions, mainly by virtue of its beautifully realized alternate universe.... Dann's prose is often striking in its color and period detail.... I recommend The Memory Cathedral to any serious reader of speculative or historical fiction. The Washington Post
       

  

    How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius
by Michael J. Gelb
Hardcover, 322 pages
Published by
Delacorte Pr 
Publication date: Jan 1998

Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." .... Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, studying to be a gourmet chef, or just hoping to be more effective on the job.
       

  

    How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius
by Michael J. Gelb
Paperback, 321 pages
Published by
Dell Book 
Publication date: Feb 2000

Here's a personal growth guidebook that's won the admiration and recommendation of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England. He calls this "a brilliant, practical guide to awakening and training our vast, unused resources of intelligence and ability." .... Gelb says there are seven critical principles that need to be followed for success, whether you're learning a new language, studying to be a gourmet chef, or just hoping to be more effective on the job.
       

  

    The How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci Workbook and Notebook: Your Personal Companion to How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci
by Michael J. Gelb
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published by
Bantan Books 
Publication date: Jun 1999

This companion volume to the bestselling "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci" is the perfect place to structure and motivate work, sharpen the senses, and harness the awesome power of one's own genius. Leonardo da Vinci is the perfect antidote to a dumbed-down world. Perfect for anyone with similar aspirations for self-actualization, the exercises in The How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci Workbook are designed to provide a lifetime of cerebral expansion, using the seven parameters laid out in How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: curiosity; developing knowledge though experience; sensual refinement; a willingness to embrace ambiguity and paradox; linking the scientific and creative sides of the brain; physical poise and fitness; and understanding the connectedness of all life.
       
    A Treatise on Painting (Great Minds Series)
Leonardo da Vinci;Paperback; Buy New: $9.60

From the Inside Flap
When Leonardo da Vinci made his will, nine days before his death, he bequeathed all his manuscripts and drawings to Messer Francesco da Melzi, gentleman, of Milan, "in remuneration of grateful services done to the testator." Melzi transported his treasures to his residence at Vaprio, where, fours...
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    Becoming Mona Lisa: The Making of a Global Icon
by Donald Sassoon
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published by
Harcourt Brace 
Publication date: Nov 2001

What is it with the Mona Lisa? Why has one small Renaissance painting of a woman--whose "mysterious" smile nobody paid much attention to until the 19th century--become the most famous artwork in the world? Donald Sassoon's witty, tidbit-packed social history.
       

  

    Mystery of the Mona Lisa
by Rina De' Firenze
Hardcover
Published by
Hastings House Pub 
Publication date: Oct 1996

Historically accurate novel recounts the mother-son relationship of Leonardo da Vinci.
       

  

    Mystery of the Mona Lisa
by Rina De' Firenze
Paperback, 368 pages
Published by Author's Choice Press
 
Publication date: May 2002

Driven by an inner force that enabled her to go back in time, Rina de' Firenze reveals what has been, since the Italian Renaissance, an enduring mystery throughout history, by recounting the life of Caterina, the mother of the great genius, Leonardo da Vinci. Told through the voice of the heroine, "Lisa," the compelling story begins with her birth into a cruel, aristocratic world, where she is orphaned in infancy, and then growing up in the Tuscan countryside, where she was renamed Caterina. In...
       

  

    Mona Lisa Smiles: Faces of Love
by Harry Barba
Hardcover
Published by
Harian Creative Pr
Publication date: Feb 1993
       
    Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari
by Paul Barolsky
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published by
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr 
Publication date: Apr 1991
       
    Leonardo, Psychoanalysis & Art History : A Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo Da Vinci (Psychosocial Issues)
by Bradley I. Collins
Hardcover, 300 pages
Published by Northwestern Univ Pr
Publication date: Jun 1997

Whether psychoanalysis can, in fact, add to our understanding of art has long been a source of contention among art historians and psychoanalysts. Leonardo, Psychoanalysis, and Art History is the latest round of a lively intellectual debate that has taken place between the two disciplines over the decades. Using Freud's Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood as a starting point, Collins employs psychoanalytic theory to deepen and expand the psychobiographical understanding of the artist. He evaluates the factual and art historical basis for psychoanalytic claims, and the extent to which these claims illuminate specific works by Leonardo da Vinci.
       
    Leonardo's Flight
by Philippe Blais
Hardcover, 340 pages
Published by
Gates & Bridges Inc.
Publication date: Apr 2000

The author keeps the readers on edge. A great thriller.
       

  

    The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
by Carol Strickland, John Boswell
Paperback, 198 pages
Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date: Nov 1992

A layman's guide to art history free from bogged down, convoluted theories provides the reader with a basic working knowledge of art and its influence on society, from ancient times to today. Simultaneous.
       
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    Spiritual Insights into the Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
Michael J. Gelb;Audio Cassette;Usually ships within 24 hours; Buy New: $11.87

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Gelb, the author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, is an expert on how the creative giant achieved so much in so many realms. He gives a charming and spontaneous talk, interacting energetically with the audience and his host, and joyfully describing