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The Da Vinci notebooks /

"A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Profile, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • On his own writings
  • On painting in general
  • The perspective of disappearance
  • On the theory of colours
  • Aerial perspective
  • On the proportions and movements of the human figure
  • Moral precepts for the student of painting
  • Judging a picture
  • On light and shade
  • Observing
  • Gestures and character
  • The artist's materials
  • Philosophy of the art of painting
  • Allegorical representations
  • Mottoes and emblems
  • Notes on sculpture
  • Observations on architecture
  • Anatomy
  • Man compared with animals
  • Physiology and medicine
  • On astronomy
  • Geography
  • Notes on the natural world
  • Machines and warfare
  • Number tricks
  • Philosophical maxims
  • Moral sayings
  • Polemics
  • Studies on the life and habits of animals
  • Fables
  • Jests and tales
  • Prophecies.