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The Fascination of the Unfinished Work (Paperback)
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Leonardo's fame is bound up in great works whose background is
obscure. There is the Mona Lisa, for which we do not know the exact
year of commencement, The Last Supper, whose state of conservation
has always given rise to particular concern, and the Battle of
Anghiari, whose renown goes well beyond the actual existence of the
work, for which researchers are still hunting today. It is this
ongoing research that motivated the publication of our volume,
which aims to record the known facts about the Battle of Anghiari.
The vanished work is so famous as to be known to academics and the
general public alike, despite - still - being considered as lost.
Here we have a case of fame without equal and which appears even
more evident if we consider that Leonardo's painting remained
visible for just over fifty years, while his preparatory sketch was
available to artists for almost two centuries. The destiny of the
Battle of Anghiari was already clear to Paolo Giovio writing in the
1530s: "our sorrow for the unforeseen damage seems only to have
wondrously increased the fascination of the unfinished work." Based
on descriptions and eyewitness accounts, this study will present a
variety of documents, such as literary sources that describe the
painting and figurative evidence, such as Leonardo's own
preparatory drawings or copies by later artists. Nor should we fail
to consider manuscript sources relating to the commissioning and
execution of the first part of the work, often traceable through
payments registered in archive sources. Equally essential is an
overview of the historical context in which the Battle of Anghiari
was painted and of the significance of this event. English Language
Edition.
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