This is not Leonardo da Vinci

Riccardo Magnani

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Free Mind Publications
01 February 2021

Art & Architecture; Renaissance art; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment; Prose: non-fiction; History of the Americas

Despite so much being written about Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance, many questions about the Tuscan artist's life and works remain shrouded in mystery:

Why isn't the painting exhibited at the Louvre Museum the Mona Lisa? Why do we find so many pagan symbols in Leonardo's Christian representations? Was Leonardo really the son of a notary and a slave? Why is there such a lack of work from Leonardo's early life-perhaps his most important period? Why do we have paintings of the Americas well before the first trips of Christopher Columbus?

Riccardo Magnani, economist-turned-Leonardo expert, reconstructs the political and economic world around da Vinci, illustrating how he was influenced by the biggest ""discovery"" of all, the Americas.

This is not Leonardo provides the key to understanding Leonardo's visual language, within the context of the Renaissance and its artists-essential to fully comprehend his work and the many clues he left behind.

Magnani reveals little-known facts about Leonardo's education, long suppressed by the Catholic Church-from his use of iconography of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Byzantines, to his influence by the Neoplatonic movement led by George Gemistus.

Thanks to the new insights presented by This is not Leonardo,

the dogmatic prism that our Western society has employed for so long to understand Leonardo da Vinci can now finally be challenged.

By: Riccardo Magnani
Imprint: Free Mind Publications
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 526g
ISBN: 9780645067514
ISBN 10: 0645067512
Pages: 394
Publication Date: 01 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Riccardo Magnani was born in Lecco, Italy. He graduated in Economics and Commerce from the prestigious L. Bocconi University in Milan, and has subsequently devoted himself to the study of Leonardo da Vinci, authoring several publications in which he showcases his innovative readings of Leonardo's work, the Renaissance, the first travels to the Americas, and the mysteries of the Ciudad Perdida-the kingdom of Paititi, better known as Eldorado, the Lost City of Gold praised by the Spanish conquistadores but hitherto undiscovered by any researcher in the world.

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