Martin Kemp

Gebundenes Buch

Leonardo Da Vinci

The 100 Milestones

Beschreibung

A leading Leonardo da Vinci scholar takes a fresh look at the master's work by exploring 100 key da Vinci milestones across his oeuvres of art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy and more, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of his death.

Autor

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 Leonardoda Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature (Oxford 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, purchased by Bill Gates in 1994. Kemp lives in Oxford, UK. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sterling Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 240mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1420g
• ISBN-13: 9781454930426
• ISBN-10: 145493042X
• Artikelnr.: 53632965