Description

One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. This book is a compact catalogue raisonné of all of the artist's masterful paintings. Based on our best-selling XXL edition, this compact volume encompasses all the artist's known paintings. It also brings us closer - with the aid of copious documentary sources, induding letters, contracts, diary entries, and other autograph material and writings - to Leonardo the man and to his day. The book offers a critical appraisal of spectacular new attributions of recent years (for example, the Salvator Mundi) and presents the most important current theses relating to Leonardo's artistic oeuvre. Within its pages you can also admire, close up and in breathtaking detail, the finest treasures of the world's greatest museums, from the Virgin of the Rocks and the Virgin and Child with St Anne to the famous Mona Lisa - without having to wait in a queue.