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Leonardo's Holy Child - The Discovery of a Leonardo Da Vinci Masterpiece: A Connoiseur's Search for Lost Art in America (Hardcover)
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Leonardo's Holy Child - The Discovery of a Leonardo Da Vinci Masterpiece: A Connoiseur's Search for Lost Art in America (Hardcover)
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Fred Kline is a well-known art historian, dealer, connoisseur, and
explorer who has made a career of scouring antique stores, estate
sales, and auctions looking for unusual-and often
misidentified-works of art. Many of the gems he has found are now
in major museum collections like the Frick, the Getty, and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. But this book is about the discovery of
one piece in particular: About ten years ago, when Kline was
routinely combing through a Christie's catalog, a beautiful little
drawing caught his eye. Attributed to Carracci, it came with a very
low estimate, but Kline's every instinct told him that the
attribution was wrong. He placed a bid and the low asking price and
bought the drawing outright. And that was the beginning of how
Kline discovered Leonardo da Vinci's model drawing for the Infant
Jesus and the Infant St. John. It is the first work by da Vinci to
have surfaced in over a century. Leonardo's Holy Child chronicles
not only the story of this amazing discovery, from Kline's research
all over the world to how exactly attributions work with regards to
the old masters (most of their works are unsigned). Kline also
sheds light on the idea of "connoisseurship," an often-overlooked
facet of art history that's almost Holmesian in its intricacy and
specificity.
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