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Title: Leonardo Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci ISBN: 0-486-23951-9 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Even his rough sketches have a quality few can match
Comment: It is a tribute to the artistic genius of Leonardo da Vinci that even his rough sketches have a dynamic quality that few people can match. The 60 sketches in this collection are sometimes rough, and yet they exhibit a detail and a precision that make them look like finished works. The level of detail in his anatomical drawings is so exquisite, that the bulges in the muscles appear to extend out of the page. Many of his sketches also represent daily events such a storm over a village, a grove of trees, plants in the wild and sometimes just the heads of people met in public.
My favorite is the sketch of drapery laying on an upraised surface. So lifelike that it is superior to many photographs, the level of detail is amazing. Arguably the most talented person who ever lived, da Vinci is clearly one of the best at drawing the world has ever seen. After looking at these drawings, no one could ever doubt that supposition.
Rating: 4
Summary: A good reference book.
Comment: This small book is great for a quick reference to a DaVinci drawing but its not good for really anything else. Its just what you should get if you need a DaVinci drawing for a quick study. There are all types of drawing examples in it. I suppose its worth the money.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Master's Work Is Incomparable
Comment: This is a good collection of da Vinci's drawings. It is one of the best among those in the Dover Art Library. A few of the pictures so vividly captured the instantaneous expressions of men in various emotional states that one is left breathless by da Vinci's incomparable power of observation and stunning drawing skills. Another bunch of drawings had complicated contents and they all showed amazingly accurate perspective geometry. One is left with no doubt that the great artist is no less a great scientist.
This book, being a collection of drawings, does little to teach, but it is a good reference and a standard of excellence for comparison with other drawings. I recommend it for any serious art student.
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Title: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Volume 1) by Leonardo Da Vinci ISBN: 0486225720 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1970 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Michelangelo Life Drawings by Michelangelo ISBN: 0486238768 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 February, 1980 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Leonardo: The Artist and the Man by Serge Bramly, Sian Reynolds ISBN: 0140231757 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale ISBN: 0823014010 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Leonardo on the Human Body by Leonardo da Vinci ISBN: 0486244830 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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