Leonardo and the Last Supper - Ross King
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Milan, 1496 and forty-four-year-old Leonardo da Vinci has a reputation for taking on commissions and failing to complete them. He is in a state of professional uncertainty and financial difficulty. For eighteen months he has been painting murals in both the Sforza Castle in Milan and the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The latter project will become the Last Supper, a complex mural that took a full three years to complete on a surface fifteen feet high by twenty feet wide. Not only had he never attempted a painting of such size, but he had no experience whatsoever in painting in the physically demanding medium of fresco. For more than five centuries the Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark has called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. Even today, according to Clark, we regard the painting as 'more a work of nature than a work of man'. And...
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2012Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing352 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1408832100ISBN-13: 9781408832103Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback in redelijk goede staat. Vouw in cover aan achterzijde. Engelstalig. Geillustreerd.; 2012; First edition; Bloomsbury; 336 pagina's; Titel: Leonardo and the Last Supper; Ref: 210429 / H24P723B
