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tennantfamily (United Kingdom) (2009/03/24):
Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist, inventor, writer and musician - Leonardo da Vinci was the epitome of the universal genius. He was also, more particularly, one of the supreme creative artists of the Italian Renaissance, whose paintings - with their psychological expressiveness, grandeur of composition and subtle use of light - ushered in the high noon of that astonishing epoch, and whose draughtsmanship has never been surpassed. Moreover, so great were his gifts and so powerful was his influence, that the very notion of the artist as a creative thinker, as opposed to an artisan, stemmed directly from him and was eventually accepted everywhere. Monti has met a widely felt need in writing this concise, perceptive study of one of the greatest giants in the history of art - and, indeed, in the history of civilization.
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