Leonardo Da Vinci. Painter. The Complete Works

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - universal genius of the Italian Renaissance, a complex personality embracing actually all fields of human knowledge, from science to painting, from engineering to medicine, to music - is the master this new monograph is dedicated to, this publication aiming at presenting the whole corpus of the works considered by the critics as authentic.
Twenty subjects, among which the most renowned oil on canvas - Lady with an ermine, Virgin of the Rocks and Mona Lisa - the rare frescoes - The Last Supper in Santa Maria delle Grazie Church and the ceiling frescoes in the Sala delle Asse in Castello Sforzesco in Milan - some preparatory cartoons and drawings, as well as some no longer existing works - like The Battle of Anghiari - we know about thanks to the copies, by artists that lived after the master, that are considered as fundamental to have a full knowledge of Leonardo as painter.
Masterpieces well known worldwide that, thanks to the detailed descriptive entries in the volume, show the activity of one of the greatest masters of the Western world, as well as one of the most intense and most fruitful periods in the history of art.
The book includes a long essay by Giovanni Villa and it is completed by bibliographical notes.