{"product_id":"shadow-drawing-paperback","title":"Shadow Drawing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancesca Fiorani\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Shadow Drawing\u003c\/i\u003e] reorients our perspective, distills a life and brings it into focus--the very work of revision and refining that its subject loved best.\" --Parul Sehgal, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e(Editors' Choice)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn entirely new account of Leonardo the artist and Leonardo the scientist, and why they were one and the same man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated as the epitome of genius. He was the masterful painter who gave us the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLast Supper\u003c\/i\u003e, and the visionary inventor who anticipated airplanes, hot-air balloons, and other technological marvels. But what was the connection between Leonardo the painter and Leonardo the scientist? And what can a mysterious, long-lost book teach us about how Leonardo truly conceived his art? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortly after Leonardo's death, his peers and rivals created the myth of the two Leonardos: there was Leonardo the artist and then, later in life, Leonardo the scientist. In this pathbreaking biographical interpretation, the art historian Francesca Fiorani tells a very different and much more interesting story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking a fresh look at Leonardo's celebrated but challenging notebooks as well as other, often obscure sources, Fiorani shows that Leonardo became fluent in science when he was still a young man. As an apprentice in a Florence studio, he was especially interested in the science of optics, which tells us how we see what we see. For the rest of his life he remained, according to a close observer, obsessed with optics, believing that his art would grow only as his knowledge of light and shadow deepened. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGiven Leonardo's scientific bent, one might think this meant that he wanted to turn himself into a human camera. In fact, he aspired to use science to capture--as no artist before him had ever done--the interior lives of his subjects, to paint the human soul in its smallest, tenderest motions and vicissitudes. And then he hoped to take one further step: to gather his scientific knowledge together in a book that would be even more important than his paintings. His \u003ci\u003eTreatise on Painting\u003c\/i\u003e would be disfigured, ignored, and lost in subsequent centuries; now, Fiorani traces this singular work's byzantine path through history and reconstructs the wisdom Leonardo hoped it would impart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanging from the teeming streets of Florence to the most delicate brushstrokes on the surface of the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow Drawing \u003c\/i\u003evividly reconstructs Leonardo's life while teaching us to look anew at his greatest paintings. The result is both a stirring biography and a bold reconsideration of how the Renaissance understood science and art--and of what was lost when the two were sundered.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancesca Fiorani\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of art history at the University of Virginia, where she has served as associate dean for the arts and humanities and chair of the art department. A leading authority on Renaissance art and the application of computer technology to the humanities, she is the creator of the digital platform \u003ci\u003eLeonardo da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 394\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8.25 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42100791509127,"sku":"9781250800213","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/bc011cdbc7713d08e7ae34cb6082445b.webp?v=1732387778","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/shadow-drawing-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}