The latest addition to the best-selling Colour Library series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art features all Leonardo\"s painted works and a detailed illustrated introduction....

Book DescriptionTurning a skeptical eye on the idea that Renaissance artists were widely believed to be as utterly admirable as Vasari claimed, this book re-opens the question of why artists were praised and by whom, and specifically why the language of divinity was invoked, a practice the ancients did not license....