Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature

ISBN-13: 9780691192697 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Leslie A. Geddes

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Leonardo's enduring fascination with water-from its artistic representation to aquatic inventions and hydraulic engineeringFormless, 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