D.A. Brown

The Legacy of Leonardo

      Skira. New The ever increasing art historical attention being paid to the School of Leonardo lies at the root of this volume published almost sixty years after Suida's classic treatment of the subject. This is the first time since then that Lombard art of Leonardesque inspiration has been the object of a systematic analysis embracing a period of around half a century starting from 1490. On the 22nd of September of that year, in fact, Leonardo recorded the presence of Marco d'Oggiono in his workshop at Milan: this, for us, is the first clue to the existence of a school associated with the Florentine master and the point of departure for the adventure of the Leonardesques. The essays opening the volume provide an overview dealing with the environment, the organisation and the working practices of Leonardo's atelier and the problems faced by historians, whilst each artist is discussed in a critical profile that, taking into account the most recent academic research, acts a brief up-to-date monograph. Also available from Abbeville PressMichelangelo: the PietàLorenzo LottoThe Frescoes in the Oratorio Suardi at TrescorePieter Bruegel the Elder at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna ISBN10: 888118463X.