Da Vinci's Ghost Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image
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Toby Lester
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- 9781439189245
- 30 oktober 2012
- 275 pagina's
Toby Lester
Toby Lester is redacteur van en schreef voor The Atlantic over onder andere de sociologie van de nieuwe godsdiensten en pogingen tot reconstructie van oude Griekse muziek. Het vierde werelddeel is zijn eerste boek en zal in Amerika en diverse andere landen verschijnen. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Toby Lester, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Toby Lester.
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In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the worlds most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surprising new light on the artistry and scholarship of Leonardo da Vinci, one of historys most fascinating figures.
Deftly weaving together art, architecture, history, theology, and much else, Da Vinci's Ghost is a first-rate intellectual enchantment.Charles Mann, author of 1493
Da Vinci didnt summon Vitruvian Man out of thin air. He was inspired by the idea originally formulated by the Roman architect Vitruvius, who suggested that the human body could be made to fit inside a circle, long associated with the divine, and a square, related to the earthly and secular. To place a man inside those shapes was to imply that the human body could indeed be a blueprint for the workings of the universe. Da Vinci elevated Vitruvius idea to exhilarating heights when he set out to do something unprecedented, if the human body truly reflected the cosmos, he reasoned, then studying its anatomy more thoroughly than had ever been attempted beforepeering deep into body and soulmight grant him an almost godlike perspective on the makeup of the world.
Written with the same narrative flair and intellectual sweep as Lesters award-winning first book, the almost unbearably thrilling (Simon Winchester) Fourth Part of the World, and beautifully illustrated with Da Vinci's drawings, Da Vincis Ghost follows Da Vinci on his journey to understanding the secrets of the Vitruvian man. It captures a pivotal time in Western history when the Middle Ages were giving way to the Renaissance, when art, science, and philosophy were rapidly converging, and when it seemed possible that a single human being might embodyand even understandthe nature of the universe.
Deftly weaving together art, architecture, history, theology, and much else, Da Vinci's Ghost is a first-rate intellectual enchantment.Charles Mann, author of 1493
Da Vinci didnt summon Vitruvian Man out of thin air. He was inspired by the idea originally formulated by the Roman architect Vitruvius, who suggested that the human body could be made to fit inside a circle, long associated with the divine, and a square, related to the earthly and secular. To place a man inside those shapes was to imply that the human body could indeed be a blueprint for the workings of the universe. Da Vinci elevated Vitruvius idea to exhilarating heights when he set out to do something unprecedented, if the human body truly reflected the cosmos, he reasoned, then studying its anatomy more thoroughly than had ever been attempted beforepeering deep into body and soulmight grant him an almost godlike perspective on the makeup of the world.
Written with the same narrative flair and intellectual sweep as Lesters award-winning first book, the almost unbearably thrilling (Simon Winchester) Fourth Part of the World, and beautifully illustrated with Da Vinci's drawings, Da Vincis Ghost follows Da Vinci on his journey to understanding the secrets of the Vitruvian man. It captures a pivotal time in Western history when the Middle Ages were giving way to the Renaissance, when art, science, and philosophy were rapidly converging, and when it seemed possible that a single human being might embodyand even understandthe nature of the universe.
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