Leonardo Da Vinci : The Flights of the Mind

• Format Paperback | 640 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 28mm | 460g
• Publication date 07 Apr 2005

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all the manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an intimate portrait’ of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials – his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc – as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made myriad small discoveries about him and his work and his circle of associates….