Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
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.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: Spanish English
Showing 10 featured editions. View all 10 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
01 |
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
02
Leonardo da Vinci: Die Biographie
Aug 01, 2009, FISCHER Taschenbuch
paperback
3596169208 9783596169207
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
03
Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
November 29, 2005, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
0143036122 9780143036128
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
04
Leonardo. El vuelo de la mente (Leonardo da Vinci : Flights of the Mind)
October 1, 2005, Taurus
Paperback
in Spanish
9681915070 9789681915070
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
05 |
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
06
Leonardo da Vinci: the flights of the mind
2004, Allen Lane, Penguin Group, Gardners Books
in English
0713994932 9780713994933
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
07
Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind: A Biography
November 18, 2004, Viking Adult
Hardcover
in English
0670033456 9780670033454
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
08
Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
2004, Viking Penguin
in English
- 1st American ed
0670033456 9780670033454
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
09
Leonardo da Vinci: flights of the mind
2004, Viking Penguin
in English
- 1st American ed.
0670033456 9780670033454
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
10
LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FLIGHTS OF THE MIND.
Publish date unknown, ALLEN LANE
in Undetermined
0713994932 9780713994933
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
First Sentence
"Half a millennium ago the surroundings were not so very different."
Classifications
ID Numbers
First Sentence
"Half a millennium ago the surroundings were not so very different."
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 29, 2008
- 21 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
February 28, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
February 28, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
February 28, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
February 28, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |