As he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo's relevance to our own ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.
Inventing Leonardo
About the Book
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I
A WORKING LIFE
Chapter 1 The Making of an Artist-Artisan
Chapter 2 Ducal Servant in Milan
Chapter 3 The Itinerant Engineer
PART II
THE ANATOMY OF A LEGEND
Chapter 4 Giorgio Vasari Invents Leonardo
Chapter 5 Playing by the Rules
Chapter 6 Leonardo Goes Public
Chapter 7 Leonardo the Harbinger of Modernity
Chapter 8 The Mind of the Maker
PART III
LEONARDO NOW
Chapter 9 The Triumph of the Eye/I
Chapter 10 Possessing the World
Chapter II The Body as Nature and Culture
Chapter 12 A Blessed Rage for Order
Epilogue: 1492-2019
Bibliography
Index