Leonardo Da Vinci: The Daedalian Mythmaker
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This study is the first to consider the whole body of Leonardo's works with an eye to a comprehensive interpretation that combines both cultural history and the history of details. According to Maiorino, Leonardo's was a myth making mode of activity that had a Daedalian range and affected art and technology alike. As both artist and inventor, Leonardo did not separate reason from experience, empiricism from abstraction, an attitude Maiorino characterizes as "Anti-Humanism." Rather than accepting the earlier view that the culture of the Renaissance was divided, he argues that Anti-Humanism was present from the start in such founders as Petrarch and Alberti and continued to be a current in later authors and artists; hence the significance of Leonardo to Humanism and to Baroque and Renaissance culture at large.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0271008172
ISBN13:9780271008172
Release Date:August 1992
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"
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