Da Vinci's Ghost Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image |
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| Author:
| Lester, Toby |
| Read by:
| Hoye, Stephen |
| Series title: | Playaway Adult Nonfiction Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61707-051-8 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2012 |
| Publisher: | Findaway World, LLC
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| Book Format: | Mixed media product |
| List Price: | USD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur of art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on coffee cups, on corporate logos, even on spacecraft. It has, in short, become the world's most famous cultural iconand yet almost nobody knows...
More DescriptionEverybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur of art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on coffee cups, on corporate logos, even on spacecraft. It has, in short, become the world's most famous cultural iconand yet almost nobody knows about the epic intellectual journeys that led to its creation. In this modest drawing that would one day paper the world, da Vinci attempted nothing less than to calibrate the harmonies of the universe and understand the central role man played in the cosmos.