Leonardo da Vinci Bibliography
By STAN PARCHIN
August 1, 2009
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Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519)
Self-portrait (ca. 1512-15)
Red chalk on paper
33 x 21.6 cm (13 x 8.5 in.)
© Royal Library, Turin |
Painter, draftsman and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) remains Western civilization's most fascinating artist and scholar. This selected bibliography contains important titles (some out-of-print) that describe his life and work. Students and enthusiasts of the polymath's thought and art will enjoy this selection of important books that detail Leonardo's achievements within the context of Italian Renaissance art, culture and history.
Classic Studies
Bronowski, J., "Leonardo da Vinci," in J.H. Plumb. The Italian Renaissance. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001, 222-237.
Clark, Kenneth. Leonardo da Vinci (rev. ed.). New York: Penguin Paperbacks, 1989.
Freud, Sigmund. Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990.
Modern Studies
Kemp, Martin. Leonardo. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Nicholl, Charles. Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind. New York: Penguin Publishers, 2005.
Pallanti, Guiseppe. Mona Lisa Revealed: The True Identity of Leonardo's Model. Milan: Skira Editore, 2006.
Whiting, Roger. Leonardo: A Portrait of the Renaissance Man. Secaucus, NJ: Quarto Publishing, Inc., 1992.
Zöllner, Frank and Johannes Nathan. Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings. Köln: Taschen Publishers, 2003.
Special Exhibition Catalogues
Bambach, Carmen (ed.), et al. Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.
Brown, David Alan (ed.), et al. Virtue & Beauty: Leonardo's "Ginevra de' Benci" and Renaissance Portraits of Women (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2001.
Clayton, Martin. Leonardo da Vinci: The Divine and the Grotesque (exh. cat.). London: Royal Collection Enterprises, Ltd., 2002.
_____ and Ronald Philo. Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomy of Man (exh. cat.). New York and Houston: Bulfinch Press and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1992.
_____. Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Man (exh. cat). Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2010.
Desmond, Michael and Carlo Pedretti. Leonardo da Vinci: The Codex
Leicester: Notebook of a Genius (exh. cat.). Sydney: Museum of
Applied Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), 2000.
Galluzzi, Paolo. Mechanical Marvels: Invention in the Age of Leonardo (exh. cat.). Florence: Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, 1997.
Kemp, Martin. Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design (exh. cat.). London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2006.
_____. Leonardo da Vinci and the Mystery of the Madonna of the Yarnwinder (exh. cat.). Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1992.
Leonardo da Vinci: Codex Leicester (A Masterpiece of Science) (exh. cat.). New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1996.
Lisa, Massimiliano, Mario Taddei and Edoardo Zanon. Da Vinci's Workshop in the Ideal City: Codices, Machines and Drawings (exh. cat.). Milan: Leonardo3 srl, 2009.
O'Grody, Jeannine A., et al. Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin (exh. cat.). Birmingham: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2008.
Pedretti, Carlo and Kenneth Clark. Leonardo: Studies for the Last Supper from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1983.
Pedretti, Carlo and Kenneth Clark. Leonardo da Vinci: Nature Studies from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (exh. cat.). Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1980.
Pedretti, Carlo, et al. Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings of Horses and Other Animals from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (exh. cat.). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.