Inventing Leonardo

by A. Richard Turner (Author)
October 1994
First Edition
Paperback
$33.95
Courses
European Art pre-1500
Title Details

Rights: Not available in British Common; Available in Canada
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780520089389
Trim Size: 6.875 x 9.25

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About the Book

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.

About the Author

A. Richard Turner is Professor of Fine Arts at New York University and the author of The Vision of Landscape in Renaissance Italy and co-author of The Art of Florence.

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