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Living with Leonardo - Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Living with Leonardo - Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Living with Leonardo is a set of highly focused memoirs, a personal
journey interwoven with historical research that encapsulates the
author's relationship with Leonardo da Vinci over more than half a
century. We learn of his encounters with the vast population that
surrounds Leonardo: great and lesser academics, collectors and
curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars
and authors and pseudohistorians and fantasists; but also how he
has grappled with swelling legions of 'Leonardo loonies', walked on
the eggshells of vested interests in academia and museums, and
fended off fusillades of non-Leonardos, sometimes more than one a
week. Kemp leads us through his thinking on the Last Supper and the
Mona Lisa, retells his part in the identification of the stolen
Buccleuch Madonna and explains his involvement with and his
theories on the two major Leonardo discoveries of the last 100
years, one of which plummeted into controversy (La Bella
Principessa), while the other underwent a rapid ascent into
widespread acceptance (Salvator Mundi). We learn firsthand of the
thorny questions that surround attribution, the scientific analyses
that support the experts' interpretations, and the continuing
importance of connoisseurship. Throughout, from the most scholarly
interpretations to the popularity of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, we
are reminded of Leonardo's rare genius and wonder at how an artist
from 500 years ago continues to make such compelling posthumous
demands on all those who engage with him.
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