Title:
Becoming Leonardo: an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
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ISBN:
9781612195957
Call Number:
ANF 920 LEO
Publication Information:
Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2017
Copyright:
©2017
Physical Description:
xii, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
1.King Death -- 2.Everything's Big at First -- 3.Hot to Trot -- 4.Jailbird -- 5.Strange Fruit Hanging from the Balcony Rail -- 6.From the Edge to the Center -- 7.The Musician from Florence -- 8.Ingenio -- 9.Horsing Around -- 10.The Middle Is Off Center -- 11.A Question Too Far -- 12.Shadow Boxing the Self -- 13.Leonardo, Exploded View -- 14.Academia Leonardi Vinci -- 15.Chaos on the Hoof -- 16.Machiavelli Enters the Mix -- 17.Here Be Dragons -- 18.Florence Redux -- 19.Fighting the Battle -- 20.Jumping Off the Cliff -- 21.I'm outta here! -- 22.You again? -- 23.Milan II -- 24.Rome -- 25.Playing Kickball at Cloux
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Summary:
Why did Leonardo DaVinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines for the notorious Borgias? Why did he carry the Mona Lisa with him everywhere he went for decades, yet never quite finish it? Why did he write backwards, and was he really at war with Michelangelo? And was he gay? In a book unlike anything ever written about the Renaissance genius, Mike Lankford explodes every cliche about DaVinci and then reconstructs him based on a rich trove of available evidence-bringing to life for the modern reader the man who has been studied by scholars for centuries, yet has remained as mysterious as ever
Format:
Books
Language:
English
