23 Oct “Leonardo, Ingegno Universale” for the types of UTET GRANDI OPERE with TECNOSTAMPA Loreto

UTET GRANDI OPERE, a company that is part of the ‘Gruppo Cose Belle d’Italia”, celebrates 500 years since the death of the Tuscan genius with the most spectacular volume ever produced, entrusting the curatorship to Alessandro Vezzosi and the printing to Tecnostampa Gruppo Pigini, Loreto, Italy.

Published in large 34×48 cm format, as a limited and numbered edition, it was presented last May 2nd at the Leonardo Da Vinci’s Ideal Museum, located in the birthplace of the Maestro of the Mona Lisa, and placed inside the exhibition spaces next to the historical documents of the collection.

This is the first visual and literary production ever made that demonstrates the profound relationship that connects all the interests and areas of activity of Leonardo da Vinci. Artist, anatomist, architect and urban planner, set designer, scientist, engineer, inventor, mathematician and writer. It is impossible to isolate just one aspect when talking about a man of such exceptional intellectual curiosity, who loved above all, experimenting and opening up new research and discussion fronts.

The iconographic apparatus consists of: 40 photographs of the places frequented by Leonardo (from the village of Vinci where he was born to the Clos-Lucé building in Amboise where he died) taken specifically for this volume by the maestro Aurelio Amendola; about 150 reproductions of pages of the codes containing the most significant drawings by Leonardo.
A complete documentation (over 60 images) of his paintings with a large space dedicated to the reproduction of spectacular and surprising details that allow an “impossible vision” of the main masterpieces. The volume, of about 400 pages in total, also contains 8 tables with very high-definition images of masterpieces of Leonardo’s art printed with the Giclée Fine Art technique, with a painted finish and, in 2 cases, with manual application of gold leaf.
A plate with litho-serigraphic printing of the reproduction of Leonardo’s famous portrait of the Lady with an Ermine decorates the cover, which is hand-bound in full-grain leather.

The lithographic technique.

Special colour rendering profiles for printing on textured papers with vegetable inks have been specifically designed and applied by the staff of the Tecnostampa Research and Development Department to obtain a truly unique result: bright images that are extraordinarily faithful to the original works bring back to life the genius of Leonardo through both vision and touch.