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Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci

Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci

Lankford, Mike, author.
Book 2017

Why did Leonardo Da Vinci leave so many of his major works uncompleted' Why did this resolute pacifist build war machines for the notorious Borgias' Why did he carry the Mona Lisa with him everywhere he went for decades, yet never quite finish it' Why did he write backwards, and was he really at war with Michelangelo' And was he gay' In a book unlike anything ever written about the Renaissance genius, Mike Lankford explodes every cliche about Da...

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Artists Italy Biography
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Psychology
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ISBN:
9781612195957
1612195954
Description:
xii, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index
Contents:
King Death
Everything's big at first
Hot to trot
Jailbird
Strange fruit hanging from the balcony rail
From the edge to the center
The musician from Florence
Ingenio
Horsing around
The middle is off center
A question too far
Shadow boxing the self
Leonardo, exploded view
Academia Leonardi Vinci
Chaos on the hoof
Machiavelli enters the mix
Here be dragons
Florence redux
Fighting the battle
Jumping off the cliff
I'm outta here!
You again?
Milan II
Rome
Playing kickball at Cloux
Autopsy
LCCN:
2016047737
Control Number:
2054995
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