
by RossKing (Author)
For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic 'miracle'. Ross King's Leonardo and the Last Supper is both a 'biography' of one of the most famous works of art ever painted and a record of Leonardo da Vinci's last five years in Milan.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Published: 12 Sep 2013
ISBN 10: 140883118X
ISBN 13: 9781408831182
Book Overview: The Last Supper is an image familiar to everyone, the story of its execution is not. In Leonardo and the Last Supper, the best-selling author of Brunelleschi's Dome tells that extraordinary story.