Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Payne, Robert

Leonardo by Robert Payne - Garden City, New York Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1978 - xix, 344 p.

Includes Bibliography and index




Introduction --
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Leonardo of Florence --
- Leonardo of Milan --
- On the highest mountain --
- The restless years --
- The faces of the angel.

The portrait of a bearded man universally accepted as a self portrait is actually a drawing of Leonardo's father. The subject of the Mona Lisa was not the wife of a merchant but the Duchess of Mila.(Among the illustrations in the book are two earlier, seldom seen Mona Lisas.) Leonardo was not the son of a peasant woman, as it is thought he was, but of a highborn woman.

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Leonardo, da Vinci 1452-1519


Painters --Biography--Italy

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