Leonardo's Notebooks
by Leonardo da Vinci
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Author: Leonardo da VinciEditor: H. Anna Suh
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-01
ISBN: 1579128173
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Book Reviews of Leonardo's Notebooks
Book Review: Insightful and Inspiring! A worthy tribute to Da Vinci by Anna Suh!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book to further explore Da Vinci's concepts of beauty and aesthetics, particularly on beauty of the human face. As a facial plastic and cosmetic surgeon, I'm constantly seeking to learn more about our concepts facial beauty across various cultures. Da Vinci's notes on the ideal facial proportions was enlightening. After reading this chapter, it's no secret why he was a master of his crafts as a painter and sculptor. He was able to recreate beauty observed in nature because he understand how divine proportions fit together.
The reproductions of his original of his original notes in sepia tone was quite good and made reading this book very enjoyable. Definitely a soon-to-be classic for coffee tables and my cosmetic surgery reception room.
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Summary of Leonardo's Notebooks
The award-winning and bestselling collection of the exquisite, annotated notebooks of Leonardo now in paperback. Culled from more than 7,000 pages of sketches and writings found in various rare books, papers, and other resources throughout the world, Leonardo's Notebooks presents, for the first time, an exhaustive collection of the insights and brilliance of perhaps the finest mind the world has ever known.H. Anna Suh selected the most fascinating of these studies, penned in the mid-15th century, and compiled them into one monumental volume that showcases Leonardo's observations and clearly illustrates them with more than 1,000 of his original sketches and exquisite line drawings. These elegant studies are of myriad topics, such as the nature of water, light and shade, perspective, philosophy, botany, astronomy, the proportions of the human figure, and many other subjects. The artwork has been carefully arranged with the text to augment and illuminate Leonardo's writings. In addition, his handwritten notes and fascinating marginalia are deciphered and translated.
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