Leonardo da Vinci : the flights of the mind / Charles Nicholl.
Pubblicazione:
London : Allen Lane, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 622 p., [16] p. di tav. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Author's note. Introduction: The cooling of the soup. Pt. 1. Childhood (1452-1466): 1. Birth 2. The da Vinci 3. Caterina 4. My first memory 5. At the mill 6. Speaking with animals 7. The Madonna of the snow 8. Education. Pt. 2. Apprenticeship (1466-1477): 1. The city 2. Renaissance men 3. Andrea's Bottega 4. Learning the trade 5. Spectaculars 6. On the lantern 7. First paintings 8. The dragon 9. Ginevra 10. The Saltarelli affair 11. Companions in Pistoia. Pt. 3. Independence (1477-1482): 1. Leonardo's studio 2. The hanged man 3. Zoroastro 4. The technologist 5. Poets in a hurry 6. The musician 7. St Jerome and the lion 8. The gardens of the Medici 9. The Adoration 10. Leaving. Pt. 4. New Horizons (1482-1490): 1. Milan 2. Expatriates and artists 3. The Virgin of the rocks 4. Ways of escape 5. The first notebooks 6. Tall tales, small puzzles 7. Architectural projects 8. The Moor's mistress 9. The Milanese studio 10. The anatomist 11. The Sforza horse 12. At the Corte Vecchia. Pt. 5. At court (1490-1499): 1. Theatricals 2. Of shadow and light 3. Little devil 4. Hunting bears 5. Casting the horse 6. Caterina came 7. Echoes of war 8. The making of the last supper 9. The Academy 10. Leonardo's garden 11. Sell what you cannot take. Pt. 6. On the move (1500-1506): 1. Mantua and Venice 2. Back in Florence 3. The insistent marchioness 4. Borgia 5. Autumn in Imola 6. A letter to the sultan 7. Moving the river 8. Mistress Lisa 9. The Anghiari Fresco (I) 10. Michelangelo 11. A death and a journey 12. The Anghiari Fresco (II) 13. The spirit of the birth. Pt. 7. Return to Milan (1506-1513): 1. The governor 2. Good day, master Francesco 3. Brothers at war 4. Dissections 5. Back in the studio 6. The world and its waters 7. Fêtes milanaises 8. La Cremona 9. The medical schools 10. Chez Melzi 11. Portrait of the artist at sixty. Pt. 8. Last Years (1513-1519): 1. Heading south 2. At the Belvedere 3. The Baptist and the Bacchus 4. The deluge 5. Sickness, deception, mirrors 6. Last visit to Florence 7. Maistre Lyenard 8. The Cardinal calls 9. Night was chased away 10 The great sea. Notes. Sources. Illustrations. Index
