Frank Zöllner (born 26 June 1956) is a German art historian who has been a professor of art history at

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since 1996. He is a prolific scholar on the life and

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Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...

, and author of one of the two modern ''

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'' of Leonardo's works (the other being by Pietro C. Marani).

Biography

Zöllner studied the history of art from 1977 to 1981. From 1983-1985, he was an 'Aby Warburg Fellow' at the

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, in London. After his 1987 graduation took place at the

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he worked from 1988 to 1992 as a research assistant at the

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. Zöllner has since 1996 been a professor of medieval and modern

art history Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

Honors and awards

* Leipzig Science Award of Saxon Academy of Sciences (2009) * 2013 Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences

Publications

* ''Vitruvs Proportionsfigur. Quellenkritische Studien zur Kunstliteratur des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts.'' Worms 1987. * ''Leonardo's Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo'' Gazette des Beaux-Arts 121(S.)115–138. 1993 DO
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ISSN 0016-5530 * ''Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa. Das Porträt der Lisa del Giocondo. Legende und Geschichte.'' Frankfurt 1994. (feat.). * ''La Battaglia di Anghiari di Leonardo da Vinci fra mitologia e politica.'' Lettura Vinciana 1997. Text ummary* ''Bilder des Frühlings und der Liebe: Die mythologischen Gemälde Sandro Botticellis.'' Munich/New York 1998. * ''Leonardo da Vinci.'' Benedikt Taschen Verlag Cologne 1999. * ''Michelangelos Fresken in der Sixtinischen Kapelle. Gesehen von Giorgio Vasari und Ascanio Condivi.'' Freiburg im Breisgau 2002 (Rombach Wissenschaften, Quellen zur Kunst, Bd. 17). * ''Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings and Drawings.'' Cologne 2003. * ''Papierpaläste. Illustrierte Architekturtheorie des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts.'' Katalog zur Ausstellung vom 16. März bis 14. Mai 2005 in der Universitätsbibliothek Albertina (Schriften aus der Universitätsbibliothek, 9), Leipzig 2005. * ''Sandro Botticelli.'' Munich 2005

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2005 nglish 2nd edn. 2015. * ''"Speicher der Erinnerung". Die mittelalterlichen Ausstattungsstücke der Leipziger Universitätskirche St. Pauli'', 2005 ditor * ''Leonardos Mona Lisa. Vom Porträt zur Ikone der Freien Welt (Wagenbachs Taschenbuch Band 552)''. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2006, * ''Georg Wünschmann (1868–1937). Ein Leipziger Architekt und die Pluralität der Stile'', Leipzig 2006 ditor * ''Michelangelo – Das vollständige Werk.'' (zusammen mit Christof Thönes und Thomas Pöpper), Cologne 2007 * ''Griffelkunst. Mythos, Traum und Liebe in Max Klingers Grafik''. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2007, * ''Bewegung und Ausdruck bei Leonardo da Vinci''. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2009, * ''Tübke Stiftung Leipzig. Bestandskatalog der Zeichnungen und Aquarelle''. Plöttner Verlag, Leipzig 2009, ditor *on

Salvator Mundi (Leonardo) ''Salvator Mundi'' () is a painting attributed in whole or in part to the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to . Long thought to be a copy of a lost original veiled with overpainting, it was rediscovered, restored, and in ...

, 2013

External links

What the satyrs taught.
- The Time # 31, July 29, 2010
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- The Time # 22, May 26, 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zollner, Frank Living people Writers from Bremen 1956 births German art historians German male non-fiction writers Leonardo da Vinci scholars

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