LEONARDO DA VINCI ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ARTIST, 19th CENT. NICE ANTIQUE ENGRAVING

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LEONARDO DA VINCI ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ARTIST, 19th CENT. NICE ANTIQUE ENGRAVING :
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“Leonard de Vinci”. Original antique engravingextracted from a 19th century edition (1880s?). Leaf’s size: 27.5 x 18.5 cm.Engraving’s actual size: 10.5 x 9.5 cm. Text on verso. Good+/very goodcondition (foxing, few stains, few minor creases on paper’s corners/edges).

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Note: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath:painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor,anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist,and writer. His genius,perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanistideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the RenaissanceMan, a man of \"unquenchable curiosity\" and\"feverishly inventive imagination\". He is widely considered to be oneof the greatestpainters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever tohave lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of hisinterests were without precedent and \"his mind and personality seem to ussuperhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote\". Marco Rosci statesthat while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world isessentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods heemployed were unusual for his time. Born out ofwedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinciin the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renownedFlorentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in theservice of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bolognaand Venice,and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded him by Francis I. Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works,the Mona Lisa is the most famous and mostparodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religiouspainting of all time, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo\'s The Creation of Adam. Leonardo\'s drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as variedas the euro, textbooks, and T-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive,the small number because of his constant, and frequently disastrous,experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination.Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which containdrawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting,compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that ofhis contemporary, Michelangelo. Leonardo is revered for histechnological ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter,a tank,concentrated solar power, a calculator, and the double hull,and he outlined a rudimentary theory of platetectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or wereeven feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such asan automated bobbinwinder and a machine for testing the tensilestrength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. He made importantdiscoveries in anatomy, civilengineering, optics, and hydrodynamics,but he did not publish hisfindings and they had no direct influence on later science.