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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Some light marking on cover and spine due to age See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In 1584 the blind Milanese artist turned historian Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo referred to Leonardo as ‘so great a man a philosopher an architect a painter and a sculptor just as skilful in teaching as in producing’. And nearly a century before Fra Luca Pacioli the mathematician described his friend Leonardo who had so kindly drawn the diagrams for his book De Divina Proportione as ‘a most worthy painter perspectivist architect and musician’. By the time you have completed the course you will have some impression of why Lomazzo and Pacioli complimented Leonardo on such multifarious talent. In Units 11-12 we shall look at Leonardo’s ideas on painting science sculpture and music and the reasons why a mathematician should have shared with an artist an interest in ‘divine proportion’. In this unit though we look at Leonardo’s career in Italy as architect sculptor and especially as painter in order to understand something of the stylistic impact of an artist whose work we have studied briefly in Unit 1 and so as to be ready in Units 5 – 7 to compare his work with that of Michelangelo and Raphael. (LL)