Remarkable, extraordinary, almost always favorable - that is the picture of I Leonardo da Vinci handed down by the writers and critics of the past. They describe a multi-talented, endearing, attractive young man, who not only astonished his contemporaries as a visual artist, but was equally impressive as a scientist and a musician. While it was widely known that he also had other I characteristics which might have caused concern in those days, for already as a young man he was reputed to have homosexual inclinations (Beltrami, nos 8-9) - a criminal offence at the time - by the 16th century these were accepted ; almost as a matter of course as part of his make-up as a genius (Lomazzo, I, p. I 104). The only thing that people really held...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1355-5
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: май 2010
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself in manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an intimate portrait of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made many discoveries about him, his work and his circle of associates. The book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy....
ISBN: 978-0-14-103533-8
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Leonardo Da Vinci Book and CD-ROM Pack: Level 4 Known world-wide as the painter of the Mona Lisa, for designs of flying machines and for his studies of the human body. He brought his scientific and artistic abilities together so successfully that he is as famous now, five hundred years after his death, as in his lifetime.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3119-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This book features a literary introduction and thoroughly researched essay followed by a section devoted to a detailed description of a selection of the artist`s masterpieces. An extensive chronology of the artist`s life and important historical events of his era as well as a compilation of remarks by famous historians, modern and old, add cultural perspective and insight into each painter`s stylistic development. A visual chart with captions as to the whereabouts of each painting and a concise bibliography with suggested further reading provide invaluable research tools. With authoritative text by leading art historians from around the globe, this lavishly illustrated edition provides fresh insights into the art and lives of one of the...
ISBN: 978-0-8478-2677-3
Издательство:
Rizzolli
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In Manhattan, Craig Mellow is the toast of the literary world, a young writer whose bestselling novels and larger-than-life adventures are fueled by natural-born charisma. But Craig lost a limb and a legacy in Africa. And his heart still clings to the land. A representative of the World Bank recruits Craig to return to his war-torn homeland - to use his knowledge of Zimbawe`s people, languages, and wildlife to stabilize its future. But once he sets foot on the continent, Craig cannot resist what runs in his Soon, this scion of a legendary family is caught in a new era of massive ivory poaching, of tribal warfare waged with modern killing tools, and international politics hardwired directly to Washington and Moscow. With a woman by his...
ISBN: 978-0-312-94077-5
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Harry Hole is back and this time he`s back from very, very far away. Another gripping instalment in this prize-winning and acclaimed series by the internationally #1 bestselling crime writer in Norway. Two women are found murdered in Oslo - both of them have drowned in their own blood. What mystifies the police is that the puncture wounds in the victims` faces have been caused from the inside of their mouths. Kaja Solness from Homicide is sent to Hong Kong to track down a man who is the Oslo Police Department`s only specialist on serial killings. The severely addicted detective has tried to disappear in the vast, anonymous city. He is on the run and haunted by his last case, the woman he loves, and creditors alike. His name is Harry Hole.
ISBN: 978-0-09-956364-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Eight titles in the popular First Reading series are re-issued with hardback covers with audio CDs inserted into a wallet inside the back cover, making this book and CD easy to store together. The Young Reading series is developed with reading expert Alison Kelly from Roehampton University to help young readers grow in confidence and ability.
ISBN: 978-1-4095-3354-2
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Do the folk stories about leprechauns match our ideas about them today? Are there other fairies in Irish tradition? What are the origins of these stories? Why do people believe in leprecahuns and fairies? Find out the answers to these questions and more in Magic Tree House Research Guide #21: Leprechauns and Irish Folklore, Jack and Annie`s guide to the wee folk of Ireland.
ISBN: 978-0-375-86009-6
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Udo Geissler passieren viele komische Dinge: Seine Briefe kommen nicht mehr an, seine Kreditkarten sind gesperrt, seine Schuhe passen ihm nicht mehr. Warum passiert das alles? Die Antwort bekommt Geissler im Museum in der Runden Ecke.
ISBN: 978-3-12-556010-9
Издательство:
Klett
Дата выхода: август 2011
Surfing began to peak on the mainland in the 1950s, where it transformed from a sport to a way of life, admired and exported across the globe. One of the key image-makers from that period is LeRoy Grannis, a surfer since 1931, who began photographing the scene in California and Hawaii in the longboard era of the early 1960s. This collection, drawn from Grannis`s personal archives, showcases an impressive selection of surf photographs - from the bliss of catching the perfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu`s famed North Shore. Equally notable is his work covering an emerging surf lifestyle, from "surfer stomps" and surf contests to board-laden woody station wagons along the Pacific Coast Highway. It is in these iconic...
ISBN: 978-3-8228-4859-3
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
"Dans cet essai publié en 1980, l`auteur de L`Archipel du Goulag rappelle que le communisme est un mal universel et s`interroge que ce qui conduit les milieux influents, en Occident, à laisser croire que communisme et Russie ne font qu`un, que l`idéologie et le système communistes sont une spécificité russe, comme les zakouskis ou les ballets du Bolchoï. Qui sont les propagateurs de cette vision du monde où la Russie ferait figure de seul et unique foyer d`infection répandant la pandémie communiste de par le monde?"
Les corriges du livre de l`eleve: A partir de la deuxieme annee de francais, des exercices pour faire le point a tout moment de l`apprentissage, et quelle que soit la methode employee, sur ses connaissances lexicales, linguistiques et communicatives. - Dix unites s`articulent autour de trois poles: - Mots et expressions. - Grammaire (verbes, constructions grammaticales). - Activites de production ecrite. - Des tests d`auto-evaluation a la suite des unites 3, 6 et 10, pour un bilan immediat et une revision efficace des structures mal maitrisees.
Un nouvel ouvrage pour s`entraîner à la prononciation du français pour les niveaux A1/A2. Structure: Le système phonétique du français standard est travaillé en 4 étapes: - observation et perception - entraînement articulatoire, rythmique et intonatif - phonie-graphie et dictée - interprétation de textes poétiques En début d`ouvrage, des conseils pour aider l`enseignant à construire des parcours d`apprentissage. En fin d`ouvrage, les marques du français familier, un tableau récapitulatif "phonie-graphie", le "h" français et les corrigés de tous les exercices. Inclus dans le manuel: un CD audio MP3 avec plus de 6h d`écoute.
ISBN: 978-2-011-55698-1
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: январь 2011
LES exercices de grammaire niveau B1 propose: - une démarche d`observation et de découverte de la règle associée à un entraînement intensif, - plus de 500 exercices avec des contenus conformes au référentiel du niveau B1 du Cadre européen commun de référence. Pour chaque chapitre: - des corpus accompagnés de questions simples pour faire découvrir la règle, - des illustrations pour faciliter la compréhension, - des exercices variés, progressifs et contextualisés, - un vocabulaire adapté au niveau des apprenants, - un bilan en fin de chapitre. En fin d`ouvrage: - un index des notions grammaticales, - les corrigés des exercices intégrés,...
ISBN: 978-2-011-55433-8
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: январь 2011
