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319 pages : 32 cm

To know Leonardo da Vinci is to be in communion with an extraordinary mind for whom the normal limitations of time, place, history, and even the human condition itself scarcely existed.

The Unknown Leonardo not only brings us closer to Leonardo the man but gives us access as well to Leonardo the genius. In this book ten of the world's leading Vincian scholars illuminate all aspects of Leonardo's multifaceted brilliance.

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It contains over 800 spectacular illustrations and reproductions, 85 in color. Through an imaginative use of graphics and captions, Leonardo's inventions and ideas are made clear to both the eye and the mind. A pictorial biography, which opens the book, sets the stage linking the highlights of Leonardo's life and work to the cultural and political events of his time.

Then, the wide spectrum of his thought and activity is fully explored. The authors examine in turn Leonardo's great paintings, his literary legacy, his innovati