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Leonardo da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature

Leslie A. Geddes

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Princeton University Press
02 November 2020

History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Renaissance art; Individual artists, art monographs; History of architecture; Biography: arts & entertainment

Leonardo's enduring fascination with water-from its artistic representation to aquatic inventions and hydraulic engineering

Formless, mutable, transparent: the element of water posed major challenges for the visual artists of the Renaissance. To the engineers of the era, water represented a force that could be harnessed for human industry but wa

By: Leslie A. Geddes
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 191mm,
ISBN: 9780691192697
ISBN 10: 0691192693
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 November 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leslie A. Geddes is assistant professor of art history at Tulane University.

Reviews for Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Fine Arts One cannot help admiring how, through her own fertile processes of thought and analogy, Geddes mirrors the astonishing liveliness of Leonardo's creative imagination. ---Francis Ames-Lewis, Burlington Magazine Compelling. . . . an exciting addition to the new field of the environmental humanities. * Choice *