Table of Contents

Introduction
1: 'Leonardo da Firenze'
2: The Microcosm
3: The Exercise of Fantasia
4: The Republic: New Battles and Old Problems
5: The Prime Mover
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Martin Kemp is University Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford and one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo. His other books include Leonardo, also published by Oxford University Press.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Review from previous edition 'sensitive and original descriptions of the master's paintings... combining the achievements of Kenneth Clark's classic on the artist with V. P. Zubov's unsurpassed account of the scientist in the context of his age''
E. H. Gombritch, The Times Literary Supplement
`'the student of Leonardo, it seems to me, could not have the field more elegantly and scrupulously ordered''
The Burlington Magazine
`'Here happily is a scholar who has found Leonardo the whole man, and given him to us''
British Journal for the History of Science