Leonardo da Vinci: A Bibliography
Best Books on the Italian High Renaissance Genius and His Art
Scholarly books about Leonardo da Vinci and Italian High Renaissance art and culture, many museum publications, are available for students and enthusiasts of the period.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was the Italian Renaissance's consummate artist, scientist and inventor. His formerly enigmatic Mona Lisa (1503-16), her identity recently confirmed, continues to inspire modern-day artists and provoke scholarly studies. The genius' profound observations of the flow of water -- the essence of life -- influenced his art and distinguished him from his peers. Most monographs about Leonardo's life and works, especially those related to his insightful drawings and writings, are available in bookstores and through Internet retailers.
Classic Biographies:
- 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.
- Plumb, J.H. (ed.), et al. Renaissance Profiles. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1961, 71-87.
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.
- Turner, A. Richard. Inventing Leonardo. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
- 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 Exhibitions:
- 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.
- 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: Codex Leicester (A Masterpiece of Science) (exh. cat.). New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1996.
- Levinson, Jay A. (ed.), et al. Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration (exh. cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1992, 270-287.
- 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.
- _____. Leonardo da Vinci: Nature Studies from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (exh. cat.). Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1980.
- Winters, Laurie (ed.), et al. Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland: A History of Collecting and Patronage (exh. cat.). Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2002, 156-159.
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