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Warburg Institute colloquia, 1352-9986 ; 22 |
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Warburg Institute colloquia ; 22.
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| Note |
"This volume presents the papers read during a symposium on 'The Lives of Leonardo', held at the Warburg Institute in September 2006 and organized by Rodney Palmer on behalf of the Leonardo da Vinci Society; several further essays were invited for this publication."--Introduction, p. 1. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Thomas Frangenberg -- The biography of Leonardo in Vasari's Vite / Charles Hope -- Leonardo in the Low Countries / Paul Taylor -- The 'official' vita of Leonardo : Raphael Trichet du Fresne's biography in the Trattato della pittura / Juliana Barone -- Leonardo and his eighteenth-century Italian biographies / Giovanna Perini Folesani -- Between translation and fabrication : Leonardo in German-speaking countries before 1800 / Thomas Frangenberg -- 'A wonderful force of nature' : an account of how the image of Leonardo da Vinci supported the eighteenth-century English idea of a 'universal' genius / Matthew Craske -- Leonardo's nonconformist choices and his legendary death : from Vasari to 1869 / Rodney Palmer -- A fin-de-siècle Leonardo between history and fiction : Gabriel Séailles and his 'psychological biography' of Leonardo (1892) / Michela Passini -- Three faces of Leonardo : representations of the artist in fin-de-siècle Russia / Julia Friedman -- Freud's Leonardo : its cultural moment and legacy / Bradley Collins -- Renato Castellani : Leonardo (1971) / David Eskerdjian -- Do biographies (and portraits) matter? / Martin Kemp. |
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Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Congresses.
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Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Appreciation -- Congresses.
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Artists -- Italy -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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| Add Author |
Frangenberg, Thomas.
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Palmer, Rodney.
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Warburg Institute.
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| ISBN |
9781908590442 (pbk.)
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