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Living with Leonardo is a set of highly focused memoirs, a personal journey interwoven with historical research that encapsulates the author's relationship with Leonardo da Vinci over more than half a century. We learn of his encounters with the vast population that surrounds Leonardo: great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors and pseudohistorians and fantasists, b...

Cutting through the veil of legend, Martin Kemp offers an unparalleled portrait of this extraordinary man, asking what made Leonardo's work so astonishing and what vision drove his art and his invention. This updated edition is the first book to include two newly discovered Leonardo works, the most important discoveries in over a hundred years.

Künstler, Wissenschaftler, Erfinder, Ingenieur - seine staunenswerte Vielseitigkeit macht Leonardo da Vinci noch heute zu einer legendären Figur. Was aber weiß man genau über dieses Universalgenie, das vor 500 Jahren lebte? Martin Kemp, international renommierter Leonardo-Experte, bietet in seiner faszinierenden Darstellung eine neue Sichtweise auf Leben und Werk des weltberühmten Künstlers und geht der wahren Bedeutung von Meisterwerken wie d...

Informative, funny, sad, and surprising by turns, this is the first book to look at all the main types of visual icon, taking eleven mega-famous examples, from Christ to the Coke bottle, to see how they arose and how they continue to function.

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A masterly account of the genius of Leonardo da Vinci and his vision of the world, generously illustrated throughout, presenting a fully integrated picture of Leonardo's art, science, and thought.

All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge, " wrote Albert Einstein. In "Structural Intuitions, " a fascinating exploration of the commonalities between two seemingly disparate realms, renowned art historian Martin Kemp applies Einstein's notion both to science and to art. Kemp argues that in both fields, work begins at the intuitive level, curiosity aroused by our recognition of patterns or order. Kemp's "structural...

From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. This book explores a range of images and ideas to demonstrate just how deeply these underappreciated links between humans and other fauna are embedded in our culture.

For almost five hundred years the central goal of European painting was the imitation of nature. Many artist and theorists, believing that imitation must be based on scientific principles, found inspiration or guidance in two branches of optics--the geometrical science of perspective and the physical science of colour. In this pathbreaking and highly illustrated book Martin Kemp examines the major optically orientated examples of artistic theo...

The true story of the Mona Lisa - the people behind it, how Leonardo painted it and what it meant to him, and its fortunes in the centuries since. Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again.

El libro constituye un estudio completo de las leyes de la óptica aplicadas al conocimiento teórico de la Historia del Arte occidental, en la epoca moderna y contemporánea. Las leyes perspectivas y su conocimiento y desarrollo histórico en la obra de los grandes pintores occidentales.

Both artists and scientists have faced the challenge of representing the world in visual form - this book looks at the ingenious ways they have done so, from the Renaissance to the present day.

A selection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings on painting. Martin Kemp and Margaret Walker have edited material not only from his so-called "Treatise on Painting" but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources.