Table of Contents

Robert B. Simon: Introduction
Part IRobert B. Simon:
1: The Discovery of a Masterpiece
Part IIMartin Kemp:
2: The Calm Centre: Leonardo and the Ineffable
3: 'Christ in the Manner of God the Father'
4: Drawings and Dates
5: Visual Magic
6: Patronage and Some Copies
Part IIIMargaret Dalivalle:
7: 'A peece of Christ done by Leonardo': Plotting the Paper Trail
8: Inventing Leonardo
9: Experiencing Leonardo
10: Appraising Leonardo
11: 'A Pitiable Sight'
12: Hollar
13: Capitanus Stone
14: 'Nothing is hidden under the sun'
15: The Picture Vanishes
Martin Kemp: Epilogue

About the Author

Martin Kemp FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Trinity College, Oxford University. One of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo da Vinci, he has published extensively on his life and work, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci: The marvellous works of nature and man, Leonardo, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon, and Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting (with Giuseppe Pallanti). He currently
speaks, writes, and broadcasts full-time. Robert B. Simon is an art historian and art dealer in New York, specializing in Renaissance and Baroque paintings. He received his doctorate at Columbia University , and has published and lectured
widely on both art-historical matters and on broader concerns relating to the authenticity, valuation, conservation, and commercial trade of works of art. Significant paintings, drawings, and sculpture from his gallery are to be found in major American museums, as well as in private collections worldwide. Margaret Dalivalle read History of Art at Oriel College, University of Oxford, after which she took up a post-doctoral research fellowship at Yale University. Subsequently, as Francis Haskell
Memorial Fund scholar, she conducted research into the history of collecting old master drawings in The Netherlands. She teaches Renaissance and early modern European art history at the Middlebury
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford.

Reviews

The reconstruction is sound and constitutes an essential perspective …
*Laure Fagnart, University of Liège, English Historical Review*