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Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the 'transcendent genius', removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J. Feinberg explores Leonardo's origins and the beginning of his career as an artist. While celebrating his many artistic achievements, the book illuminates his debt to other artists' works and his struggles to gain and retain patronage, as well as his career and personal difficulties. Feinberg examines the range of Leonardo's interests, including aerodynamics, anatomy, astronomy, botany, geology, hydraulics, optics, and warfare technology, to clarify how the artist's broad intellectual curiosity informed his art. Situating the artist within the political, social, cultural, and artistic context of mid- and late-fifteenth-century Florence, Feinberg shows how this environment influenced Leonardo's artistic output and laid the groundwork for the achievements of his mature works.

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Not only was Leonardo da Vinci (1453-1519) an astonishing painter, but also a scientist, anatomist, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, inventor, and more. The question is rather, what was he not? During the Italian Renaissance, he mastered the most beautiful works of art for the Medicis' in Italy and for the King of France. He aroused admiration from his contemporaries, who depicted a universal genius, curious and virtuous. Even today, interest in da Vinci and his work does not fade; his works and writings are still studied by foremost experts hoping to decipher one of the numerous secrets of this visionary artist.

\"Studying nature with passion, and all the independence proper to his character, he could not fail to combine precision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in this final emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling, of illumination, and of expression, this breadth and freedom, that the master's raison d'^tre and glory consist. Others may have struck out new paths also; but none travelled further or mounted higher than he.\" (EugSne M_ntz)

Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) war ein florentinischer Maler und Zeichner der frühen Renaissance. Im Geist der Frührenaissance und des Humanismus malte Botticelli, beeinflusst sowohl von seinem Lehrmeister Fra Filippo Lippi als auch Masaccio und Antonio Pollaiuolo, religiöse Bilder, Altarbilder sowie Bilder aus dem Themenbereich der griechischen Mythologie und Allegorien mit Gegenwartsbezug. Er entwickelte einen unverkennbaren Individualstil, dessen Wurzeln bis in die Gotik zurückzuführen sind. Man erkennt seine Werke an der Betonung der Linien und den überschlanken Figuren und Gliedern seiner.