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The Leonardos and the Forgotten Arab Polymath, Zoroastro

Susan Audrey Grundy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

227 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1275-3 (ISBN)

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This book recovers the lives of four men masked behind one legend. Reinterpreting recently rediscovered documents shows a Tuscan artist Leonardo da Vinci was banished from Florence around 1477, when at the same moment another Leonardo arrived from the East, an Ottoman agent from Genoese Caffa in the Black Sea. This Leonardo was a military engineer, who began writing technical notes backward in a flourishing Italian script. In Florence, around 1500, he met the alchemist and polymath Zoroastro, who collaborated in producing the scientific Notebooks. However, by the mid-sixteenth century, all memory of Zoroastro had been erased, and the two Leonardos had been conflated into one identity. Crucially, an archived document, rediscovered around 2021, proved that the Tuscan painter Leonardo da Vinci died in 1499. This information leads to the recovery of the artist who really painted the Mona Lisa, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.

Author Susan Audrey Grundy is an independent scholar with a PhD in Art History from the University of South Africa, Pretoria. Her most recent publication is an article specific to the topic at hand, "Painter Leonardo da Vinci or Leonardo from Caffa in Crimea? Challenging the Attribution of Selected Documents," Arts & Communication (2024). She has published Leonardo research since 2018, entering the field with doubts about the attribution and identity of the so-called Salvator Mundi: "It Is Not the Salvator Mundi: A Questionable Attribution to Leonardo da Vinci." South African Journal of Art History (2019). She has also published an article on the power of interpretation, pointing to how scholars in the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth century controlled the transcriptions of the Notebooks. She has made some of her research about Zoroastro available online, as well as her insights into what she calls Leonardo anti-theory.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10	1-0364-1275-X / 103641275X
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-1275-3 / 9781036412753
Zustand	Neuware