Tratado de Pintura

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Ediciones AKAL, 1 oct 2004 - 516 páginas
Aunque el Tratado de Pintura de Leonardo da Vinci no fue impreso hasta el siglo XVIII, los fragmentarios manuscritos que para componerlo reunieron sus primeros editores habían circulado profusamente por Europa y suscitado la admirada curiosidad de artistas y eruditos. Se trata de otra de las empresas imposibles de Leonardo, un fracaso más de los que, por muy dispares caminos, se cebaron en su empeño de refundir todas las formulaciones empíricas y todos los tópicos conceptuosos del Renacimiento, ordenándolos en un sistema universal. Toda edición del Tratado debe entendérselas con la dificultad de evocar esta visión y ese fracaso, seleccionando y combinando textos y dibujos, dificultad que no había sido salvada con acierto en las publicaciones existentes en lengua castellana. La versión que presentamos viene, pues, a cumplir una inaplazable exigencia de la bibliografía artística española.
 

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Often called the Universal Man, this genius in science, engineering, aeronautics, technology was also one of the world's greatest painters, as well as a sculptor, an architect, and a town planner. Born in Vinci, Leonardo was apprenticed as a 14-year-old to the sculptor-painter Andrea Verrocchio in Florence. In 1482, he went to Milan as a military engineer, sculptor, and architect, and remained there for 17 years. While in Milan, he designed the crossing tower of the Milan cathedral and, among many other works, painted The Last Supper (1496--97), a mural in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. During these years in Milan, da Vinci also composed his Treatise on Painting (1489--1518) and filled his notebooks. In 1499, da Vinci returned to Florence. The Mona Lisa (1503--06) dates from that period. After a short and unsuccessful time in Rome (1513--16), he settled in France under the patronage of Francis I. He died in Amboise at the age of 67. A supposedly lost manuscript of da Vinci's was rediscovered at the National Library in Madrid in 1965 and published in 1974.

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