This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
In The American Leonardo, John Brewer traces the twisting path of the Hahn La Belle-a painting of famously uncertain origin--as he illuminates the workings of the twentieth-century art market, exploring such larger questions about the art ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Bernard Berenson authenticated the work and in 1898 it was sold to one of the first American collectors he worked with ... He was glad, he said, to see a possible Leonardo in the United States, even though it was a “wreck of a Leonardo, ...
Explores the story of a single painting and shows how its life reveals the intricacies of the twentieth century's obsession with art, money and taste.
The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel F. B. Morse