Young Leonardo: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist, 1472-1499

Young Leonardo: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist, 1472-1499
ISBN-10
1250129354
ISBN-13
9781250129352
Series
Young Leonardo
Category
Art
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2017-05-23
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Authors
Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Christopher Heath Brown

Description

"Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Heath Brown depict Leonardo's seminal years in Milan from an entirely new perspective: that of the Sforza court. They show that much of the Sforza patronage was directed on vast projects, such as the Milan Cathedral, favoring a close circle of local artists to which Leonardo never gained entry. As a result, his exceptional talent remained largely unrecognized right up to The Last Supper and the fresco of the Crucifixion on the opposite wall, a work that up to now has fully escaped public attention. Finally, they present a sensational theory: that two long-ignored, life-size copies of The Last Supper, now in Belgium and the UK, were actually commissioned by the French king Louis XII and painted under Leonardo's direct supervision."--Publisher's description.

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