Nato da un amore tra una contadina e un giovane notaio, Leonardo crebbe senza ricevere un'educazione regolare. Il padre infatti si rifiutò di legittimarlo. Se questa condizione di libertà dai doveri di un apprendimento rigido e codificato fu certo ragione di grande stimolo alla …
In this revelatory account, Antonio Forcellino draws on his expertise-- both as historian and as restorer of some of the world's greatest works of art -- to give us a more detailed view of Leonardo than ever before. Through careful analyses of his paintings and compositional tec…
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Prologue -- Notes -- Part I Illegitimate Son -- 1 The Summer Child -- Notes -- 2 In Florence -- Notes -- 3 Verrocchio's Workshop -- Notes -- 4 Drawing -- 5 Early Experiments in the Workshop -- Notes -- 6 Epiphany -- Notes -- 7 Burning Youth --…
A visionary scientist, a supreme painter, a man of eccentricity and ambition: Leonardo da Vinci had many lives. Born from a fleeting affair between a country girl and a young notary, Leonardo was never legitimized by his father and received no formal education. While this freedo…
In this revelatory account, Antonio Forcellino draws on his expertise-- both as historian and as restorer of some of the world's greatest works of art -- to give us a more detailed view of Leonardo than ever before. Through careful analyses of his paintings and compositional tec…
A visionary scientist, a supreme painter, a man of eccentricity and ambition: Leonardo da Vinci had many lives. Born from a fleeting affair between a country girl and a young notary, Leonardo was never legitimized by his father and received no formal education. While this freedo…
In this revelatory account, Antonio Forcellino draws on his expertise-- both as historian and as restorer of some of the world's greatest works of art -- to give us a more detailed view of Leonardo than ever before. Through careful analyses of his paintings and compositional te…