Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind
by Charles Nicholl
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used; Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140296816
- ISBN 13
- 9780140296815
- Seller
-
Milton Keynes , Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
2 Copies Available from This Seller
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all the manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an 'intimate portrait' of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made myriad small discoveries about him and his work and his circle of associates. Among much else, the book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, on his homosexual affairs in Florence, and on his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. A masterpiece of modern biography.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Brit Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0001542620
- Title
- Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind
- Author
- Charles Nicholl
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used; Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0140296816
- ISBN 13
- 9780140296815
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- April 7, 2005
Terms of Sale
Brit Books Ltd
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Please contact us on customercare@britbooks.co.uk if you have queries regarding your order.