LIVING WITH LEONARDO

In an engaging personal narrative interwoven with historical research, Martin Kemp discusses a life spent immersed in the world of L eonardo, and his encounters with great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, majo r scholars and authors, pseudo-historians and fantasists. He shares 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 tha n one a we...[Llegir més]