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Item Number: 133451
Title: LEONARDO : Studi di fisiognomica
Author: Caroli, Flavio
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788891801838
Description: Milano: Electa, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 256pp. illus. Revised edition. Italian text. Summary: To mark the major exhibition in Milan on Leonardo da Vinci, more than 20 years on, Flavio Caroli has republished and updated one of his first works, which is still a milestone in his studies on physiognomy. Leonardo wrote a fundamental Treatise on Physiognomy, and by so doing, brought the subject into the modern age. And, in fact, it is with Leonardo that Caroli begins his studies. Flavio Caroli's work, supported by hefty artistic and theoretical documentation, reconstructs the history of this psychological and iconographical study in painting and in culture, starting with drawings and the study of human sentiments, based on drawings of faces by the famous artist-cum-scientist, thanks to which the basis of the future subject of psychology is anticipated and developed. This book traces the development of physiognomy, an extremely old science, through which faces became a medium for understanding human sentiments. A most interesting and enthralling read, thanks to the mastery and expertise of the author. (I libri di Flavio Caroli)
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