Leonardo's Horse: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 1573660310
- ISBN-13
- 9781573660310
- Series
- Leonardo's Horse
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 317
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Author
- R. M. Berry
Description
Both Leonardo di Vinci, on his deathbed in 1519, and R-, a historian in the twentieth century, ponder the reasons the artist abandoned work on his enormous statue of a horse in Milan
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