Beschreibung:
For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. And yet there is a very human story behind this artistic 'miracle'. Ross King's Leonardo and the Last Supper is both a 'biography' of one of the most famous works of art ever painted and a record of Leonardo da Vinci's last five years in Milan.
An art book that begins in Milan, 1496, wherein a 44-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. This tells the complete story of the creation of the Last Supper, the adversities suffered by the artist during its execution, the experimental techniques he employed, the people involved and more. Both a record of da Vinci's last five years in Milan and a 'biography' of one of the world's most famous pictures.