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Article: LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FLIGHTS OF THE MIND/LEONARDO
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- December 4, 2004
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Renaissance man in all his richness LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FLIGHTS OF THE MIND by Charles Nicholl Allen Lane, £25, pp. 502, ISBN 0713994932 * £23 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848
LEONARDO by Martin Kemp OUP, £14.99, pp. 286, ISBN 0192805460 * £12.99 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848
The major challenge faced by biographers of artists is the almost impossible one of dealing with equal authority with their lives and works. It is tempting to wonder whether this is not one of the reasons why so few of them are written by art historians, although there are of course heroic exceptions, of which John Richardson's ongoing Picasso is perhaps the most illustrious.
In the specific case of Leonardo ...