Books written by Luke Syson

  • The renaissance portrait

    The renaissance portrait

  • Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy
    Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy

    This lavishly illustrated volume examines the complicated relationships between the so-called fine arts--painting and sculpture--and artifacts of other kinds for which artistry might be as important as utility-furniture, jewelry, and ...

  • Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

    A new examination of Leonardo's career that illuminates his time as court painter to the Duke of Milan, an experience that fundamentally changed his outlook and his legacy

  • Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
    Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body

    This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works from thirteenth-century Europe to the global present, revealing new insights into the strategies artists deploy to blur the distinction between art and life.

  • Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50 2015
    Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50 2015

    Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south Italian vase painting; a bronze hellenistic dwarf; identification of the origins of Kizil paintings in the Metropolitan Museum; The Story of ...

  • The Image of the Individual: Portraits in the Renaissance
    The Image of the Individual: Portraits in the Renaissance

    The portrait in the Renaissance has long been connected with the cult of personality which emerged in the 15th century and provoked people to record their features accurately for the...

  • Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
    Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

    Leonardo da Vinci's reputation as an inventor and scientist, and the complexity of his creativity and personality, have sometimes almost overshadowed the importance of his aims and techniques as a...