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5 reviews
Martin Kemp

Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2006

The Story of an Exceptional Renaissance Man!!!
+++++ This book by Oxford University Professor of Historical Art Martin Kemp gives the reader the opportunity to "grasp the essential nature of Leonardo da Vinci, both as himself and as a historical phenomenon." Kemp, who has investigated Leonardo for over thirty years, does this through historical documents and through studying mainly Leonardo's drawings and paintings. A highlight of this ...

On Painting (Penguin Classics)

2 reviews
Leon Battista Alberti

Penguin Classics, 1991

Charming little book with insights into perspective painting
Book I is a leisurely introduction to the basic geometrical principles of painting. "I usually give my friends the following rule: the more rays are employed in seeing, the greater the quantity seen will appear. ... Furthermore, the extrinsic rays, which hold on like teeth to the whole of the outline, form an enclosure around the entire surface like a cage. This is why they say that vision takes ...

The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat

2 reviews
Martin Kemp

Yale University Press, 1992

At long last a scientific approach to art history.
It's amazing what happens when a scientist studies art history. This is a historical perspective on color theory, camera obscura and perspective. It relates the work of indvidual artists to the advances in science. The refreshing thing is that Kemp realizes that artists who used perspective were not slaves of science, and an artist such as Turner actually realized that the main item of ...

Visualizations: The Nature Book of Art and Science
Martin Kemp

University of California Press, 2001

Martin Kemp's provocative essays on the interplay between art and science have been entertaining readers of Nature, the world's leading journal for the announcement of scientific discoveries, since 1997. These short, illustrated, highly regarded essays generally focus on one visual image from art or science and provide an evocative and erudite investigation into shared motifs in the two disciplines. Gathered together here with a delightfully ...

The Oxford History of Western Art

3 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Oxford History of Western Art a must have reference book
It is often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To an extent that is true but it also has its limitations. The proper appreciation of art is not a matter of taste or impressions but an intellectual understanding of what a particular work is trying to do. That is as true of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel as it is Mark Rothko's Ochre on Red on Red. To understand a piece of art, one must ...

Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man

1 review
Martin Kemp

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Exceptionally Readable and Knowledgable
Kemp's book is exceedingly different from many accounts of the life of Leonardo da Vinci. It does not try to explain his entire life or place him on secret missions for the Church, nor does it find hidden meanings in his paintings. Leonardo da Vinci is a straight-forward text, and coupled with Kemp's easy-to-read writing style, is quite enjoyable. At times, Kemp becomes carried away with ...

Leonardo da Vinci: Revised Edition

8 reviews
Kenneth Clark

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1989

The best introduction to Leonardo & a compelling read
Kenneth Clark's book is probably the best available introduction to Leonardo da Vinci. It is both a good biography and an insightful analysis of Leonardo's art and artistic career. The text is appropriate for both laymen and students of art history. Clark's writing is concise and extremely engaging (to the point where I would recommend reading this book for fun), but it is also intelligent and ...

Notebooks (Oxford World's Classics)
Leonardo da Vinci, Irma A. Richter, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He jotted down fables, epigrams, and ...

The Art Bulletin: A Quarterly Published by The College Art Association of America: June 1969, Volume LI, ...
Colin Eisler, John White, ...

The College Art Association of America, 1969

Articles: "The Golden Christ of Cortona and the Man of Sorrows in Italy: Part One"; "Donatello's High Altar in the Santo at Padua: Part Two: The Reconstruction"; "The Earliest Works of Fra Bartolommeo"; "Circus Race Scenes in the Early Roman Empire"; "Brunet's Romanesque Capital"; "Lorenzo Ghiberti's Space in Relief: Method and Theory"; "A Representation of the Profanation of the Host: A Puzzling Painting in the Hermitage and Its Possible ...

Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to ...

Yale University Press, 2001

Leonardo's writings on painting - among the most remarkable from any era - were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources, some of which were here translated for the first time. The resulting volume is an invaluable reference work for art historians as well ...

Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

4 reviews
Alessandro Cecchi, Martin Kemp, ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003

The Definitive Tome on da Vinci as genius
LEONARDO DA VINCI: MASTER DRAFTSMAN is a magnificent addition to the library about this extraordinary Renaissance genius. Published as a 'catalogue' for the exhibition that just left the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the weighty book is successful on all levels. The Curator and driving force fo the exhibition, Carmen C. Bambach, has firmly established her credentials in this vast survey of ...

Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now

2 reviews
Martin Kemp, Marina Wallace

University of California Press, 2000

The art of dissection
This is one of the most fascinating art books to cross my path in some time. The subject is the artistic representation of human anatomy. This is the occasion for a fascinating tour of curiosa. Of course, you have a sequence of Dutch and American anatomy theatre group portraits. More interesting is the sculptures in wax of dissection, surgical, and anatomical models, handmade by what were ...

Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, and Design
Martin Kemp

Princeton University Press, 2006

Here, the world's leading authority on Leonardo da Vinci takes us to the heart of the Renaissance master's genius--his visual thinking. Probing the mystery of how da Vinci thought graphically, on paper, Martin Kemp traces not only his approach to modeling but also fascinating efforts by modern engineering to build his inventions. Could these inventions have worked? We see da Vinci visualizing mighty ideas from the arts of peace to the science of ...

Seduced: Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now

1 review
Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp, ...

Merrell, 2007

College-level art libraries will relish this stand-alone catalog
This survey of sex in art spans some 2000 years and considers the boundaries between art and pornography as it probes sexually explicit works and accompanies a London gallery exhibition on the subject. College-level art libraries will relish this stand-alone catalog, which holds works and discussions of over 70 artists and historical figures and examines history, culture and artistic ...

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