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  Leonardo da Vinci and artworks

  Gabriel Séailles

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  Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as a sculptor, being the creator of the Colleoni statue at Venice, Leonardo was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment. He was well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day, as well as a gifted musician. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; shown by his numerous drawings as well as by his comparatively few paintings. His skill of hand is at the service of most minute observation and analytical research into the character and structure of form. Leonardo is the first in date of the great men who had the desire to create in a picture a kind of mystic unity brought about by the fusion of matter and spirit. Now that the Primitives had concluded their experiments, ceaselessly pursued during two centuries, by the conquest of the methods of painting, he was able to pronounce the words which served as a password to all later artists worthy of the name: painting is a spiritual thing, cosa mentale. He completed Florentine draughtsmanship in applying to modelling by light and shade, a sharp subtlety which his predecessors had used only to give greater precision to their contours. This marvellous draughtsmanship, this modelling and chiaroscuro he used not solely to paint the exterior appearance of the body but, as no one before him had done, to cast over it a reflection of the mystery of the inner life. In the Mona Lisa and his other masterpieces he even used landscape not merely as a more or less picturesque decoration, but as a sort of echo of that interior life and an element of a perfect harmony. Relying on the still quite novel laws of perspective this doctor of scholastic wisdom, who was at the same time an initiator of modern thought, substituted for the discursive manner of the Primitives the principle of concentration which is the basis of classical art. The picture is no longer presented to us as an almost fortuitous aggregate of details and episodes. It is an organism in which all the elements, lines and colours, shadows and lights, compose a subtle tracery converging on a spiritual, a sensuous centre. It was not with the external significance of objects, but with their inward and spiritual significance, that Leonardo was occupied.

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  As Time Goes By

  Alice Taylor

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  Alice Taylor brings the reader with her on her 80th birthday year.
  
  Alice had a big birthday on the horizon, the village was about to celebrate many milestones, and she had just received the gift of a book focusing her on the art of living well. So she decided to write about her year as it unfolded, to keep a journal of the big events, and record the twists and turns normal life brings to all of us in just one year.
  But 2018 turned out to be far from normal, with storms, snow blizzards, blistering sun, severe drought and water shortages. She describes the challenges of all these dramatic weather changes.
  Alice began the year wondering how she would feel about reaching eighty. She was pleasantly surprised to discover that it was just another milestone on a journey that is still varied and interesting. Here she writes about these feelings, and the many pleasant and challenging events of her eightieth year.

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  Home Is the Road - Wandering the...

  Diane Glancy

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  From the award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another. "My sense of place is in the moving," Glancy writes. For her the road is home—its own satisfying destination. But the road also makes demands on us: asking us to be willing to explore the incomprehensible parts of the landscapes we inhabit and pass through—as well as to, ultimately, let them blur as they go by. This, Glancy says, is home.Glancy teases out the lessons of the road that are never easy to define, grappling with her own: childhood's puzzle pieces of her Cherokee heritage and a fraught but still compelling vision of Christianity. As she clocks an inordinate amount of driving, as she experiments with literary forms, she looks to what the land has held for centuries, before the roads were ever there.This, ultimately, is a book about land, tradition, religion, questions, and the puzzle pieces none of us can put together quite right. It's a book about peripheral vision, conflicting narratives, and a longing for travel.

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  Along the Amber Route - St...

  C.J. Schüler

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  'Timely and powerful.' Financial Times  Portable and expensive, amber has always been a desirable commodity. C.J. Schüler follows the historic Amber Route from St Petersburg to Venice through three millennia of history. Throughout his journey, current politics and his own family's experience of persecution and flight are never far from his mind.As he traces the greatest fault lines of European geopolitics and explores lands contested by Romans and Vandals, Teutons and Slavs, empires and the former Iron Curtain, Schüler must also confront his family history, Nazism and the Holocaust.

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  Air Fryer - Air Fryer Cookbook...

  James Palermo

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  Can You Use Only One Method To Please Everyone With Different Tastes And Textures? Could You Cook Some Of The Best Dishes In A Fresh And Enticing Way? 
  All you need is a simple tool–an air fryer. 
  Air fryers are hot new kitchen devices that use compressed hot air to "fry" oil-free food. It's a great boon for home cooks who enjoy the flavor and texture of deep-fried foods, but dislike the sugar, calories, mess, and risk that come with fried foods in a pot of hot oil. 
  Air Frying is a revolutionary technology, and the air stove promises to be a perfect kitchen appliance. We all love the taste of crispy fried rice, but we all know it can be really unhealthful. Air Frying is the best way to cook, where you can appreciate the taste of fried food without risking your nutrition. 
  You have to feel that the recipes that can be cooked in an air fryer are very limited. But you'll be surprised to know that the air fryer is not limited to frying, but you can also roast, grill and bake in it to make delicious, mouth-watering dishes.You will discover something totally new and impressive. You will learn that you can cook all the favorite foods in a much healthier way. You will use less oil and fat and be able to cook the dishes in no time. All the dishes will be completely cooked on the inside and on the outside.  
  You can forget about the microwave, the oven and the deep fryer. The air fryer is going to roast, heat, cook and barbecue all the food for you and your friends. Everything is done a lot quicker and tastes delicious. It's just as plain as that. It's effective, efficient and quick to do. 
  The air frying approach outlined in the audiobook will surely help you to enjoy better health!

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  Hidden History of Milwaukee

  Robert Tanzilo

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  Join a local history expert for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Milwaukee’s incredible past.   Sail out to the Breakwater Lighthouse, scramble up the wings of the Milwaukee Art Museum, and dig up the city’s roots on the corner of Water Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Seize the chance to do a little urban spelunking and explore basilicas, burial grounds, and breweries. Ring the bell in the city hall tower, and take a turn around the secret indoor track at a Montessori school. No space is off limits in these untold stories of the Cream City's most familiar places and celebrated landmarks, from Bobby Tanzilo of the popular OnMilwaukee website.  Includes photos!

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