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Leonardo Da Vinci: the Divine and the Grotesque
by MARTIN CLAYTON
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1902163095
- ISBN 13
- 9781902163093
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Royal Collection. Very Good. 2002. Soft Cover. 4to Dimensions: 28.8 x 22.8 1902163095 With 149 illustrations, 92 in colour. 192 pages clean and tight. Tiny ownership label on half title. The pursuit of beauty and its opposite was one of the central themes of Leonardo da Vinci's life. This book looks in detail at 75 drawings of the divinely beautiful and the grotesquely ugly from the unrivalled collection preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. In his introductory essay, Martin Clayton explores Leonardo's life-long urge to create such-drawings. Individual entries then look at each of the selected works, placing them in the context of contemporary attitudes to beauty, notions of perfect proportion, popular. images of the comically ugly, and accepted modes of artistic creation and social behaviour. Among the drawings are studies for Leonardo's masterpieces such as the Last Supper and Leda and the swan, imaginary heads drawn to capture the perfect profile, satirical grotesques, dissections of the head, portraits of Leonardo's associates,.designs for masks and festival costumes and much else. Leonardo's studies of heads are some of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic works ever produced by this archetypal genius. This is the first book to explore the subject fully. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144017
- Title
- Leonardo Da Vinci: the Divine and the Grotesque
- Author
- MARTIN CLAYTON
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1902163095
- ISBN 13
- 9781902163093
- Publisher
- The Royal Collection
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.