Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature

Hardback

Main Details

Title Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Leslie A. Geddes
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 260,Width 191
Category/GenreRenaissance art
Individual artists and art monographs
History of architecture
History of science
ISBN/Barcode 9780691192697
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General
Illustrations 124 color + 14 b/w illus.

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 25 August 2020
Publication Country United States

Description

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

Author Biography

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

Reviews

"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 * "A timely invitation to a close reading of Leonardo's drawings, not as a purely artistic medium but also as a versatile means of engaging with nature."---Anatole Tchikine, Renaissance Quarterly