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Leonardo da Vinci is, without a doubt, one of the most fascinating of all Renaissance artists. Unclassifiable, inexhaustible, he invented games, gadgets, a flying machine and war machinery; studied anatomy and astronomy; wrote poetry as well as scientific treatises. But never, as this book explains, did these multiple interests deter him from what was most essential to him: painting.
This superb collection on the theme of painting and science in da Vinci’s work was written and published over the years in French journals by eminent art historian André Chastel. Assembled together here for the first time in one elegant volume, it includes selections from da Vinci’s written manuscripts, nineteen black and white illustrations, and an index of such contemporaries as Piero della Francesca and Lorenzo de Medicis.