Leonardo and the Last SupperFor 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. |
Contents
The Bronze Horse | 1 |
Portrait of the Artist as a MiddleAged Man | 17 |
The Cenacolo | 40 |
Dinner in Jerusalem | 52 |
Leonardos Court | 68 |
The Holy League | 86 |
Secret Recipes | 100 |
Trouble from This Side andThat | 115 |
The Beloved Disciple | 180 |
Food and Drink | 200 |
The Language of the Hands | 220 |
No One Loves the Duke | 243 |
Tell Me If I Ever Did aThing | 265 |
Acknowledgments | 277 |
Notes | 279 |
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