LEONARDO DA VINCI/ SELF ART AND NATURE

This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and, through him, foreve r changed Western art and imagination: nature, art, and self-fashioning. Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twe lve years in the Tuscan countryside before entering the most reputed artistic workshop of Florence. There he blossomed as one of the most promising painters of his time and promptly applied his skills to explore and question the world through science and invention . Leonar...[Leer más]