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Young Leonardo : the evolution of a revolutionary artist, 1472-1499 / Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Heath Brown.

Title
Young Leonardo : the evolution of a revolutionary artist, 1472-1499 / Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Heath Brown.
Author
Isbouts, Jean-Pierre
Publication
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, May 2017.

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Brown, Christopher Heath
Description
vi, 231 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
Summary
"The traditional view of Leonardo da Vinci's career is that he enjoyed a promising start in Florence and then moved to Milan to become the celebrated court artist of Duke Ludovico Sforza. Young Leonardo proves all of this wrong. It reveals how the struggling painter was repeatedly snubbed by the prevailing trends of Florentine style before escaping to Milan empty-handed. But Milan offered little more; Sforza's patronage was lukewarm, to say the least, and all the major commissions went to artists whose names are now forgotten. How did the amateur become one of the all-time greatest masters? Slowly, meticulously, disastrously. Focusing on an often neglected period in Leonardo's life, here is a fascinating window into the artist's mind as he develops the techniques that will transform Western art forever. Because before there could be a Last Supper, a Mona Lisa, a St. Anne, there had to be a young Leonardo"--
Subject
  • Léonard de Vinci, 1452-1519 > Biographies
  • Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 > Childhood and youth
  • Artists > Italy > Biography
  • ART / History / Renaissance
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
Genre/Form
Biographies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I. Toward the Adoration of The Magi: Leonardo's early oeuvre in Florence -- Prologue -- Beginnings in Florence -- The Adoration of the Magi -- Part II. Towrad The Last Supper: Leonardo's oeuvre in Milan -- An artist in Milan -- The Sforza commissiions -- The Pala Sforzesca -- The Santa Maria delle Grazie -- Montorfano's Crucifixion with Donors -- The theme of The Last Supper -- Painting The Last Supper -- Seeing The Last Supper with new eyes.
ISBN
  • 9781250129352
  • 1250129354
  • 9781250129369 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • ^^2017001968
  • 40027288271
OCLC
957021224
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library