The da Vinci Legacy
How an Elusive 16th-Century Artist Became a Global Pop Icon
- Soon to be a Public Television Special! - For the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death comes an immersive journey through five centuries of history to define the Leonardo mystique and uncover how the elusive Renaissance artist became a global pop icon.Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art: a realism based on subtle shading; depth using atmospheric effects; and dramatic contrasts between light and dark.But how did Leonardo, a painter of very few works who died in obscurity in France,…
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Weitere Autoren: Brown, Christopher
- ISBN: 978-1-948062-35-0
- EAN: 9781948062350
- Produktnummer: 30237137
- Verlag: Apollo Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'673 KB
- Abbildungen: 130 four color illustrations
Über den Autor
Jean-Pierre Isbouts is an art historian and a doctoral professor at Fielding Graduate University. He is the author of nine books, including The Biblical World, In the Footsteps of Jesus, and The Story of Christianity which have sold nearly 1.3 million copies, and together with Christopher Heath Brown, the coauthor of two prior books on Leonardo da Vinci, The Mona Lisa Myth and Young Leonardo. Dr. Isbouts has been on numerous radio and TV shows and is the host of the TV series In Search of Masterpieces. He has directed several programs for Disney, ABC, Hallmark and the History Channel, working with actors such as Leonard Nimoy, Charlton Heston, Dick van Dyke, and Morgan Freeman, and produced recordings with orchestras around the world. His accomplishments in the art world include being credited with the discovery that a copy of Leonardo's Last Supper in a convent in Belgium was actually painted by Leonardo and his workshop. Dr. Isbouts lives in Santa Monica, CA.
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