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Marani’s texts provide a thoughtful context for understanding the artistic and cultural significance of Leonardo’s oeuvre within the broader spectrum of Renaissance art.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"leonardo-da-vinci-1452-1519-by-pietro-c-marani-9788857229096","title":"Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA vast catalogue dedicated to Leonardo's entire oeuvre on the occasion of the largest exhibition ever realised in Italy on the genius, symbol of Italian art and creativity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by two leading international specialists with the assistance of a prestigious academic committee and published to coincide with the biggest Leonardo exhibition ever held in Italy (produced by Skira and Comune di Milano\/Palazzo Reale), \u003cem\u003eLeonardo da Vinci 1452-1519. The Design of the World\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates the many talents of Leonardo - painter and draughtsman, scientist, musician and inventor - and his ability to combine the arts and sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book and exhibition are truly unprecedented due to the authority of the curators, the academic precision combined with educational intent, the number of works on display including paintings, drawings and manuscripts, and the exceptional loans from private collections and the world's most important museums and libraries, such as the Louvre, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Musei Vaticani, the Royal Collection at Windsor and the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book features numerous masterpieces, including a large number of paintings, more than one hundred drawings and various extraordinary codices and incunabula on loan from some of the greatest collections in the world: major works such as the Dreyfus Madonna from the National Gallery of Art in Washington and three masterpieces from the Louvre - the Belle Ferronnière, the Annunciation and the St John the Baptist - as well as thirty wonderful sheets from the Codex Atlanticus and thirty drawings from the English Royal Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe multifaceted activity of the genius from Vinci is documented in full in the twelve sections that make up the work: Drawing as the cornerstone; Nature and the science of painting; The dialogue of the arts; The dialogue with antiquity; Anatomy, physiognomy and motions of the mind; Invention and mechanics; Dream; Reality and utopia; The unity of knowledge; De coelo et mundo: images of the divine; Leonardo's legacy: pupils, followers and the Trattato della Pittura; The legend of Leonardo. 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Its display at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, alongside other works from the Litta Collection, brings together a group of precious paintings, drawings, and prints by the most talented students and followers of the master. This not only sheds light on the production methods of his atelier but also offers a measure of the success of the Leonardesque prototype.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition features masterpieces reinterpreted by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Marco d'Oggiono, Francesco Napoletano, the Master of the Sforza Altarpiece, and other anonymous followers, spanning from the late 1400s to the early 1500s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEssays and entries by authoritative scholars on the work of Leonardo and his circle enrich this publication, edited by Andrea Di Lorenzo and Pietro C. 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From the moment that the prior at the monastery complained to Leonardo that the work was taking too long, the \u003ci\u003eLast Supper\u003c\/i\u003e has endured centuries of controversy, neglect, and difficulty. \u003ci\u003eLeonardo, The Last Supper\u003c\/i\u003e, translated from the Italian, is the definitive document of the recently completed project to reverse these centuries of decline by restoring the painting and preserving it in a manner that generations of conservators have failed to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe technical problems with the \u003ci\u003eLast Supper\u003c\/i\u003e began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. 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