Reviews

Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Frank Zöllner, Johannes Nathan

erindarlyn's review against another edition

4.0

This book is beautiful and enormous. I particularly enjoyed seeing some of Da Vinci's less popular works, alternate versions of some of his more famous ones, and his sketchbook pages.

Some of the images are repeated multiple times throughout the book and others are printed very small; thus, I did not feel that this particular version is worthy of 5 stars.

meredith_gayle's review

5.0

I enjoyed looking more at the pictures than trying to read the book. The print was too small for me to read.

heyheybooks's review

5.0

This book is quite thorough and contains plenty of information about da Vinci's life, painting process, the condition/location/history of each painting, as well as most of his drawings, from portraits to mechanical studies to botany studies. A couple drawings (both portraits of women) came to mind that did not show up in this book, but I'm sure they've been attributed to da Vinci before this book was published, so I'm not sure why are are not included since they are both pretty well known. In the end I came away wanting to know even more about him, beyond the incredible amount of information already included. The author has done a lot of research and even explains why some works may or may not be correctly attributed, like some of the earlier works by Verrochio and da Vinci, and paintings by students based off of da Vinci's designs. The reproductions are very well done, and the physical book is very beautiful (and heavy!). If you are interested in knowing more than you already do, I recommend this book. The explanations and sources are all very valid, and properly cited.