Carlo Pedretti Bücher

Zum 500. Todestag - Skizzen eines Genies • Prachtband zum Jubiläumsjahr 2019, dem 500. Todesjahr Leonardos • Über 260 Zeichnungen, farbige Porträts und Motivausschnitte mit Texten zweier Koryphäen der Kunstgeschichte • Wunderschöne Buchausstattung: Halbleinen mit Prägung Für Leonardo da Vinci ließ sich natürliche Schönheit am besten durch das Malen und Zeichnen von Porträts und Landschaften ausdrücken. Dabei sind seine Zeichnungen, die den Gemälden häufig in nichts nachstehen, entweder einfache, von sicherer Hand schnell aufs Papier geworfene Skizzen oder eigenständige Kunstwerke, die den Verlauf der Kunstgeschichte für immer verändern sollten. Dieses Buch enthält eine große Zahl an Gemälden und Zeichnungen, die als die schönsten aus Leonardos Gesamtwerk gelten. Es vereint Meisterwerke wie die Mona Lisa oder Das letzte Abendmahl mit ihren ausdrucksvollen Skizzen und Entwürfen. Zudem gewährt es Einblicke in das außergewöhnliche Leben des Genies.

Leonardo da Vinci was the true Renaissance man. Not only was he one of the greatest artists ever to live, but he was also a truly gifted architect and creative mind who devised amazing machines centuries ahead of his time. His list of interests and achievements are extraordinary; as well as artist and architect, he was astronomer, researcher, scientist, experimenter, anatomist, and inventor. Leonardo's most acclaimed paintings are the Mona Lisa in the Louvre, Paris and The Last Supper in the refectory at Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy. But in many ways his greatest legacy are the hundreds of pen and ink drawings and sketches which are now in museums and collections around the world. These explain, in his remarkable mirror writing, his calculations and hypotheses for the mechanical operation of his various ideas. This book attempts to explain who this great genius was and why he became such a creative man. It looks at where he came from and his education, who his influences were, and how he made his way in the world to become the most remarkable man of his time. His work was founded in strict science and based on a profound analysis of ancient and traditional sources, but it was his curiosity which really drove him. His inquisitive mind led him to investigate every field of knowledge and his life's work is an extraordinary synthesis of art, science, and technology fused in theoretical and practical experience gathered from a long and productive life.

At a time of growing interest in Leonardo's work which coincides with the City of Vinci's efforts to remodel and enlarge its Museum, this publication like other studies and promotional activities under way in various Vincian centers (from Florence to Milan, from Amboise to Los Angeles), offers useful information to a wide variety of readers. This book also seems to analyze correctly both the myth of Leonardo and the current interest in him while summing up the essential contribution of Da Vinci to Renaissance science and technology. These results are obtained by means of a vast photographic documentation and the introduction of interpretative data. Therefore we would like to express our appreciation of this venture and of those responsible for its completion. Liliano Bartolesi Mayor of Vinci (from notes in this book)

Leonardo's fame is bound up in great works whose background is obscure.

Das burleske Spiel um die Herbergswirtin Mirandolina, die drei Verehrer von Stand mit Witz und Raffinesse an der Nase herumführt, um schließlich dem vierten, ihrem Gehilfen, die Hand zu reichen, ist bis heute das beliebteste Stück Goldonis. Lord Byron bezeichnete es als "eine der besten Komödien, die Europa je hervorgebracht hat".