Leonardo and the Last Supper - Softcover

King, Ross

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9780385666091: Leonardo and the Last Supper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385666098 ISBN 13: 9780385666091

Publisher: Anchor Canada, 2013

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Leonardo da Vinci's transcendent painting The Last Supper defined the master artist. Until now, no one has told the full story behind its creation. Political events weighed on da Vinci and all of Italy during the time of the painting's conception and creation, as his patron, the Duke of Sforza, unleashed forces leading to a decades-long series of tragedies known as the Italian Wars. Sforza was overthrown by French forces in 1499, forcing da Vinci to flee Milan with the paint on The Last Supper barely dry. The Last Supper ensured Leonardo's universal renown as a visionary master of the arts.

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About the Author:

ROSS KING is the author of The Judgment of Paris, Brunelleschi's Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, and the novels Ex-Libris and Domino. Born and raised in Canada, he now lives near Oxford, England. The author lives in Oxford, England.

Review:

� "Like King's previous award-winning books, this one is peppered with insights gleaned from extensive reading, research and pure Sherlockian deduction. After King, you never look at art quite the same way again." --The Gazette (Montreal)
� "No Canadian writer before him has so thoroughly mastered the business of selling high-toned non-fiction to a mass audience, but King makes it seem easy. . . . With every new book, King takes the same approach, sifting through familiar stories of great artists to find overlooked gems of information and context, polishing them to a fine lustre and stringing them into bright garlands as artful as the subjects he treats." --The Globe and Mail

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