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Leonardo da Vinci and the Italian high Renaissance

Bent, George R.,

Leonardo da Vinci and the Italian high Renaissance - 6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (vi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.) - Great courses, fine arts & music . - Great courses (DVD). Music & fine arts. .

Course no. 7111.

Disc 1: 1. Introducing Leonardo da Vinci -- 2. Who was Leonardo? facts and fictions -- 3. Leonardo's artistic origins -- 4. From apprentice to partner -- 5. Annunciation: Leonardo's first commission -- 6. A new kind of portrait: Ginevra de' Benci -- disc 2: 7. Leonardo's early Madonnas -- 8. Scandal, reprieve and the penitent St. Jerome -- 9. Inventing early modern classicism -- 10. Arrival in Milan: Madonna of the Rocks -- 11. Leonardo at court: Portrait of a Musician -- 12. Leonardo and the ladies -- disc 3: 13. Threats to the Italian Renaissance: the 1490s -- 14. Leonardo the inventor and engineer -- 15. Vitruvian Man, perfection, and architecture -- 16. Leonardo the military scientist -- 17. Leonardo and flight -- 18. Drawing human figures and caricatures -- disc 4: 19. Colossus: the sculpture for Ludovico Sforza -- 20. The making of The Last Supper -- 21. The meaning of The Last Supper -- 22. Mantua, Isabella d'Este, and Venice -- 23. Return to Florence: Sfumato and an exhibition -- 24. Leonardo, Cesare Borgia, and Machiavelli -- disc 5: 25. Michelangelo and Leonardo -- 26. Mona Lisa: La Gioconda -- 27. Raphael and Leonardo -- 28. Leonardo in Milan and Pope Julius II in Rome -- 29. The anatomical drawings: his greatest works? -- 30. In praise of painting: Leonardo's manifesto -- disc 6: 31. Leonardo and the Medici in Rome -- 32. High Renaissance art from Rome to Venice -- 33. Last years: Leonardo in France -- 34. Renaissance man and man of the Renaissance -- 35. The end of an era -- 36. The legacies of Leonardo da Vinci.

Lecturer: Professor George R. Bent, Washington and Lee University.

This course examines the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, focusing on his life during the Italian high Renaissance.


DVD, NTSC.

1598038346 9781598038347

PD7111A Teaching Co. 7111 Teaching Company


Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 --Criticism and interpretation.


Art, High Renaissance--Italy.


Instructional films.
Educational films.
Instructional films.
Filmed lectures.
Nonfiction films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Educational films.
Filmed lectures.
Nonfiction films.
Educational films.
Filmed lectures.

N6915 / .B46 2012

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