Leonardo and the Last Supper

Name: Leonardo and the Last Supper
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ISBN: 9780802717054

ISBN-10: 0802717055

ISBN-13: 9780802717054

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ross King

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Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history’s most influential and beloved works of art—The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at forty-three, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of prestigious commissions, to complete anything that truly fulfilled his astonishing promise. His latest failure was a giant bronze horse to honor Sforza’s father: His 75 tons of bronze had been expropriated to be turned into cannons to help repel a French invasion of Italy. The commission to paintThe…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Walker & Company
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Map of Italy in 1494


Sforza-Visconti Family Tree


The Last Supper with Apostles Identified



The Bronze Horse



Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Man



The Cenacolo



Dinner in Jerusalem



Leonardo's Court



The Holy League



Secret Recipes



"Trouble from This Side and That"



Every Painter Paints Himself



A Sense of Perspective



A Sense of Proportion



The Beloved Disciple



Food and Drink



The Language of the Hands



"No One Loves the Duke"


Epilogue: Tell Me If I Ever Did a Thing


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index