Leonardo. La natura allo specchio. Ediz. inglese: Nature in the Mirror - Brossura

Versiero, Marco

Brossura

ISBN 10: 8874614101 ISBN 13: 9788874614103

Casa editrice: Mandragora, 2019

Riassunto

Si inaugura con questa monografia la collana "Opera maestra", specificamente mirata a mettere a fuoco, secondo una prospettiva inedita, l’opera e l’itinerario degli artisti che hanno fatto la storia. Ad aprire le danze è Leonardo da Vinci, fotografato con occhio partecipe dallo studioso Marco Versiero. Il centro del discorso, ciò che da questa lettura alla fine si imprime nella memoria di chi legge, è un riflettore puntato sull’anima che, tra le mille di Leonardo, l’autore Versiero pare volere mettere in rilievo: la sua anima-specchio. Quell’occhio dell’artista che, frapposto tra l’umano e la natura, le sue più grandi passioni, seppe mirabilmente mediare tra le due dimensioni, senza mai negarne una, ma anzi riuscendo a illuminarle entrambe come mai prima di lui era stato azzardato. Riflettendo l’una nella luce dell’altra, come in uno specchio. Un’essenziale nota biografica introduce alle pagine dello studioso Marco Versiero, accompagnate da 61 immagini. Queste, riproducendo un’attenta selezione non solo dell’opera pittorica ma anche dei disegni di Leonardo, e impreziosite da un corredo di didascalie approfondite, raccontano il suo percorso dall’apprendistato fiorentino col Verrocchio agli anni della maturità.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Marco Versiero is a research doctor in political philosophy and in modern Italian literature; he obtained the national scientific qualification as associate professor and has taught History of political doctrines at the University of Naples 'L Orientale'. Under the direction of Professor Pietro C. Marani, he edited the catalogues of two of the twenty-four exhibitions on Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan: Politics and Allegories (2010) and The Floods and Prophecies (2012). He contributed to the catalogue of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519: the drawing of the world, curated by Pietro C. Marani and Maria T. Fiorio (Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2015). He is an ordinary member of the Vinciana Collection Authority in Milan and a member of the Leonardo da Vinci Society in London; he is also the author of: The Gift of Freedom and the Ambition of Tyrants. The art of politics in the thought of Leonardo da Vinci (Naples, Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, 2012) and Leonardo in "chiaroscuro", between Savonarola and Machiavelli, c. 1494-1504 (Mantua, Il Rio Art, 2015). His writing is passionate, visual, and engaging.

Marco Versiero is a research doctor in political philosophy and in modern Italian literature; he obtained the national scientific qualification as associate professor and has taught History of political doctrines at the University of Naples 'L Orientale'. Under the direction of Professor Pietro C. Marani, he edited the catalogues of two of the twenty-four exhibitions on Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan: Politics and Allegories (2010) and The Floods and Prophecies (2012). He contributed to the catalogue of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519: the drawing of the world, curated by Pietro C. Marani and Maria T. Fiorio (Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2015). He is an ordinary member of the Vinciana Collection Authority in Milan and a member of the Leonardo da Vinci Society in London; he is also the author of: The Gift of Freedom and the Ambition of Tyrants. The art of politics in the thought of Leonardo da Vinci (Naples, Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, 2012) and Leonardo in "chiaroscuro", between Savonarola and Machiavelli, c. 1494-1504 (Mantua, Il Rio Art, 2015). His writing is passionate, visual, and engaging.

Dalla quarta di copertina

With this essay, La natura allo specchio, starts our new series of studies entitled Masterpiece. The series intends to offer, from a new point of view, a focus on the work and itinerary of those artists who have made History. To let the dance begin there is Leonardo da Vinci, depicted with a participating eye by the scholar Marco Versiero.

The most impressing core of the analysis is the specific soul, among the thousands of Leonardo’s, that Marco Versiero wants to underline: his mirror-soul, namely, Leonardo’s eye put between Humans and Nature. In other words the eye that lets the artist make those two dimensions, his favourite ones (the human and the natural one), communicate with each other without cancelling themselves, but at the contrary reflecting one in the other’s light, like in front of a mirror.

An essential biography introduces the reader to Marco Versiero’s pages, matched with 61 detailed pictures. The pictures, proposing a selection not only of Leonardo’s paintings but also of his drawings, furnished with extended captions, tell the itinerary of the genius from the years of his apprenticeship in Verrocchio’s workshop till the days of his maturity

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Mandragora
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8874614101
• ISBN 13: 9788874614103
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 63
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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