Beschreibung:
Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci, was trained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute, London. His 25 books include The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (Yale), and The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Chicago). He has published and broadcast extensively on Leonardo da Vinci, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man and Leonardo (both Oxford). His Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (Oxford) looks at 11 types of icons across a wide range of public imagery.
Museums, cultural institutions, and media outlets across the globe are preparing celebrations to mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci¿s death in 2019