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Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones

Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones

by Martin Kemp (Author), Martin Kemp (Author), Martin Kemp (Author)

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To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master's milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more.

From his roots as an illegitimate child born in a small Tuscan town, Leonardo da Vinci rose to become the most famous person in the history of visual culture. Spring 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of his death in May 1519, with exhibitions and events planned across Europe and the United States. In a fresh twist on other Leonardo books, this volume by Martin Kemp--one of the world's leading authorities on da Vinci--offers a broadly chronological survey of 100 key Leonardo milestones across his many fields of discipline. Lavishly illustrated with stunning images, it covers paintings, including The Annunciation, The Last Supper, and Portrait of Lisa del Giocondo (the Mona Lisa ); anatomical studies (Studies of the Optics of the Human Eye, Ventricles of the Brain); engineering marvels (Gearing for a Clockwork Mechanism and Wheels without Axles; Designs for a Flying Machine); scientific works (Studies of the Light of the Sun on the Moon and Earth, Sequences of Aliquot Numbers and Geometrical Studies of Areas)--and much more.

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Format: hardcover
 Publisher: Sterling
Published:
ISBN 10: 145493042X
ISBN 13: 9781454930426

Author Bio
Martin Kemp, Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University, is one of the world's leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci. His books include the acclaimed biography Leonardo (Oxford University Press), The Science of Art (Yale University Press), and Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting (OUP, cowritten with Giuseppe Pallanti). His most recent work is Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond (Thames & Hudson), and he has written for Nature for more than 10 years. He's curated a series of exhibitions on Leonardo and other themes, including the London shows Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery; Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum; and Seduced: Sex and Art from Antiquity to Now at the Barbican. He was also guest curator for Circa 1492 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1992. Kemp is currently working on a new edition of Leonardo's Codex Leicester, his most important scientific manuscript, that was purchased by Bill Gates for $30.8 million in 1994, making it the most expensive book ever sold. Kemp lives in Oxford, UK.