da Vinci Legacy (eBook)

How an Elusive 16th-Century Artist Became a Global Pop Icon

Christopher Brown, Jean-Pierre Isbouts (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
320 Seiten
Apollo Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-948062-35-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Soon to be a Public Television Special! For the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death comes an immersive journey through five centuries of history to define the Leonardo mystique and uncover how the elusive Renaissance artist became a global pop icon.Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art: a realism based on subtle shading; depth using atmospheric effects; and dramatic contrasts between light and dark.But how did Leonardo, a painter of very few works who died in obscurity in France, become the internationally renowned icon he is today, with the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper the most visited artworks in the world, attracting nearly a billion visitors each year, and Salvator Mundi selling as the most expensive artwork of all time, for nearly half a billion dollars?This extraordinary volume, lavishly illustrated with 130 color images, is the first book to unravel these mysteries by diving deep into the art, literature, science, and politics of Europe from the Renaissance through today. It gives illuminating context to both Leonardo and his accomplishments; explores why Leonardo's fame vastly overshadowed that of his contemporaries and disciples; and ultimately reveals why despite finishing very few works, his celebrity has survived, even thrived, through five centuries of history.

Autor

Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts is an art historian and a doctoral professor in the social sciences PhD program at Fielding Graduate University. He is the best-selling author of thirteen books, including The Biblical World, In the Footsteps of Jesus, and The Story of Christianity, which have sold 1.3 million copies. He has also directed several award-winning films for Disney, ABC, Hallmark, and the History Channel, working with actors such as Leonard Nimoy, Charlton Heston, Dick van Dyke, and Morgan Freeman, and produced recordings with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and other ensembles. Dr. Isbouts’s collaboration with Dr. Christopher Brown has resulted in several books about Leonardo da Vinci, including The Mona Lisa Myth (2013) and Young Leonardo (2016), a new interpretation of da Vinci's oeuvre from 1472 to 1499. He is credited with the discovery that a copy of Leonardo’s Last Supper in a convent in Belgium was actually painted by Leonardo and his workshop. Dr. Isbouts has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows, and is the host of the TV series In Search of Masterpieces and two public television specials about the Mona Lisa, one of which, The Search for the Mona Lisa, will air in sync with the release of The da Vinci Legacy, marking the five hundredth anniversary of da Vinci’s death. Dr. Isbouts lives in Santa Monica, CA. Dr. Christopher Brown is a practicing oral and maxillofacial surgeon who has presented and published to both national and international audience, as well as an art connoisseur and the director of Brown Discoveries, a research institute focused on Renaissance art. Together with Dr. Isbouts, he coauthored The Mona Lisa Myth and Young Leonardo. Dr. Brown lives in Cornelius, NC.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 130 four color illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York City
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: 500 anniversary • acclaimed art historian • ART • art connoisseur • art historian • Art History • Artist • captivating art • Christ • Christian art • Color • Dali • european artists • famous paintings • French Art • French artists • influential art • influential artist • Italian • Italy • Last Supper • Leonardo da Vinci • leonardos legacy • leonardos notebooks • Louvre • Michelangelo • Mona Lisa • Painter • painting • Paints • Portrait • Raphael • Renaissance • revolutionary inventions • Salvador Dali • The Last Supper • the mona lisa • Uffizi • unraveling the mystery • Vitruvian Man • western art
• ISBN-10: 1-948062-35-6 / 1948062356
• ISBN-13: 978-1-948062-35-0 / 9781948062350