Buy used: $306.20

FREE delivery July 12 - 18. Details

Or fastest delivery July 6 - 8. Details

Select delivery location

Used: Good | Details

Sold by ThriftBooks-Phoenix

Share

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 8 images

Follow the Author

Frank Zöllner

Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings and Drawings Hardcover – July 22, 2015

by Johannes Nathan (Author), Frank Zöllner (Author)

855 ratings

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$33.99

$23.63

Hardcover, July 22, 2015

$306.20

—

$302.20

Paperback

"Please retry"

—

$156.00

One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is recognized the world over as a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability.

This updated edition of our XL title provides the most comprehensive survey of the life and work of this master painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, and inventor. Its catalogue raisonné of Leonardo’s paintings covers both his surviving and his lost painted works. With full-bleed details of many paintings, the reader is able to inspect the subtlest facets of brushworks that came to revolutionize Art History.

A further catalog of Leonardo’s drawings arranges nearly 700 of his drawings by category (architecture, technical, proportion, cartography, etc) and showcases his fabulous observational finesse, from anatomical studies to architectural plans, from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits. It includes a fresh chapter exploring the artist’s mesmerizing manuscripts.

The accompanying account of Leonardo’s life and work includes a special in-depth exploration of his masterworks The Annunciation and The Last Supper.

Print length

708 pages
Language

English
Publisher

TASCHEN
Publication date

July 22, 2015
Dimensions

15.55 x 2.28 x 10.35 inches
ISBN-10

3836527014
ISBN-13

978-3836527019
See all details

Frank Zöllner
603
Hardcover
25 offers from $10.88
Daniel Wildenstein
893
Hardcover
42 offers from $13.45
Ingo F. Walther
678
Hardcover
24 offers from $38.97
Frank Zöllner
2
Hardcover
38 offers from $58.90
Frank Zöllner
134
Hardcover
35 offers from $4.94
Rainer Metzger
2,158
Hardcover
14 offers from $23.50

Ingo F. Walther
678
Hardcover
24 offers from $38.97
Frank Zöllner
603
Hardcover
25 offers from $10.88
Daniel Wildenstein
893
Hardcover
42 offers from $13.45
Frank Zöllner
2
Hardcover
38 offers from $58.90
Sebastian Schütze
388
Hardcover
23 offers from $41.17
Leonardo da Vinci
491
Flexibound
85 offers from $3.01

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Opening this lavishly illustrated book is a sumptuous celebration of the visual aspects of Leonardo’s œuvre.” ― The Art Newspaper, London

“By far the best immediate work of reference.” ― The Evening Standard, London

About the Author

Johannes Nathan studied art history at New York University and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1995 with a dissertation on the working methods of Leonardo da Vinci. He is the author of numerous art publications, director of Nathan Fine Art (Berlin and Zürich) and teaches art history at the Technische Universität, Berlin.

Frank Zöllner wrote his doctoral thesis on motifs originating from Antiquity in the history of art and architecture of the Medieval and Renaissance periods (1987). He is also the author of a postdoctoral treatise on motion and expression in the art of Leonardo da Vinci, published in 2010. He has published numerous works on Renaissance art and art theory, and on 20th-century art. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Leipzig. For TASCHEN he has authored the XL monographs on Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ TASCHEN; Slp edition (July 22, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 708 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3836527014
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3836527019
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.63 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.55 x 2.28 x 10.35 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,023,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #801 in Figure Drawing Guides
- #1,516 in Individual Artist Monographs
- #3,143 in Painting (Books)

Customer Reviews:
855 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Frank Zöllner

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

5 star		88%
4 star		8%
3 star		2%
2 star		1%
1 star 0% (0%)		0%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Reviews with images

See all customer images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Alanoud

It Makes your eye smile

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2020

Verified Purchase

The media could not be loaded.

Loooove it 😍 , everything the drawings ,the quality and the details of drawings really fantastic, also the description of every picture make it easy to understanding .

17 people found this helpful

Helpful

Mel's Notes

Beautiful book of paintings and drawings.

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2019

Verified Purchase

I'm very pleased with my purchase of Leonardo. It is a beautiful book filled with great quality pictures of Leonardo's paintings and drawings. The paper quality of the book is very nice as well. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to have a copy for themselves or a gift for a Leonardo fan.

5 people found this helpful

Helpful

Cassandra

Beautiful book, great gift

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2020

Verified Purchase

I bought this for a birthday gift and my friend absolutely loved it. It's a beautiful book and it really has and endless amount of pictures, sketches and above all wonderful explanations.

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2021

Good print and paper

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2020

Verified Purchase

This replaces the one I lost in a flood. I’m sorry for taking so long to review. I’ve been in the hospital several times the past year

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2021

Verified Purchase

I would give ten stars if I could. Amazing!

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2019

Verified Purchase

Beautiful book with high quality content. The illustrations are printed very well.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Chelsea

Better than expected

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2021

Verified Purchase

This book is beautiful and a very good value for the price.

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Peter Taylor

So near but so far

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2019

Verified Purchase

Very large and very comprehensive book but there are 2 things that really irritate me.
a) There is an almost obsessional preoccupation with extreme close-ups. One double page shows just a nose and lips. Another double page shows the head of Cecilia Gallerani on the left leaf, with part of her head running in to the centre valley, and the right leaf shows nothing at all. On the other hand Leonardo's divine sketch 'Study for the head of a girl 1483' which could easily have been shown actual size, is presented like a postage stamp.
b) This is a really giant size book, like a pulpit bible, and on the text pages there are vast areas of blank white paper, yet the printing point size is very small. Being a 'senior' this means I have to use strong reading glasses which simply puts me off reading the text at all. In a book this size and stature I find this an unacceptable failure of graphic design so for me this is a case of 'so near yet so far'. You may well think me harsh and unkind, and for the Leonardo lover this is great value for money, and I understand the paperback edition is presented in a more handleable 2 volume edition, which I now wish I had ordered. Is this is so please enlighten me.
c) I would only say, before you slag me off as I'm sure you'd like to, I'm a trained designer and a registered Architect and am very accustomed to being vilified for the shortcomings of my work, so I feel no remorse for passing on the benefit of my feelings to this forum.

26 people found this helpful

Dave

ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING ☺

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2018

Verified Purchase

For the complete works of Leonardo Da Vinci you would expect to be paying a considerable amount of money. If you were able to view the book somehow, say in a bookshop and ( manage to lift all 5kgs of it off the shelve ) you would expect to pay approximately £70 at least. The book is absolutely beautiful, in every way. Leonardo's complete life in a beautiful book at a price so cheap it is damn well ridiculous. I have no idea why Amazon are able to sell this book so cheap but I for one is not complaining and I thank them wholeheartedly.
The book contains ( well you probably know ) his paintings, scientific work and drawings with a number of items. Such as pencils and charcoal.
You can see the book is complete in every way by the inclusion of ' doodles.' ( a lot of you haven't the faintest idea what I am on about have you? Well, you know when you are on the phone ( well, that is when you had to stay in one place and not have a ' Hands free ' you would stand/sit and draw the strangest things on a writing pad ( well I doodled.) These are sometimes turned into a number of beautiful pictures.
I have never seen a book like this. You can tell because I have ended up writing a load of strange sh**.
I am just unable to explain the incredible beauty of this book.
( And I did not even mention the information given in the book. But you have probably fell asleep by now or jumped off the roof )
Absolutely Amazing Art, Beauty and knowledge.

12 people found this helpful

A. Parker

One of those books you must have

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 1, 2018

Verified Purchase

I don't know how much this book weighs, it must be close to 5 kg like someone mentioned. It's huge and thick (700 pages, yes), filled with beautiful illustrations and drawings. The drawings constitute the most part of the book, there are only about 200 pages of text, but still, for 30 pounds, it's a bargain. This is a book you really want on your shelf.

2 people found this helpful

Enrico Pascucci

Fantastic book on Leonardo life and artworks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2020

Verified Purchase

This huge book, written by a renowned Leonardo expert, gives a through overview of Leonardo's life and a detailed analysis of his paintings, drawings, etc with many beautiful images (some unknown to the public). Only thing that can be debated is the size of the fonts in the texts, a bit small to be read comfortably for long time. I understand anyway that , increasing it, the book from huge would have gone to gigantic. For the price, a real bargain in terms of quality and information contained.

One person found this helpful

Nadia

Good but the close ups are disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2019

Verified Purchase

Its a great book with many sketches but some close ups are a big disappointment- it would be better if they weren’t there at all! Feels like the publisher didn’t care

7 people found this helpful

See all reviews

Follow the Author

Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings and Drawings Hardcover – July 22, 2015

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Customers who bought this item also bought

Editorial Reviews

Review

About the Author

Product details

About the author

Frank Zöllner

Customer reviews

Reviews with images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries