The Best Leonardo Book is Written by Martin Kemp
About Author Martin John Kemp FBA is a British art historian and exhibition curator who is one of the world's leading authorities on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci. The author of many books on Leonardo, Kemp has also written about visualization in art and science, particularly anatomy, natural sciences, and optics. About The Leonardo..... Leonardo and the" Abbreviators " The abbreviators of work do injury to knowledge and to love, for love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent as knowledge is more certain, and certainty springs from a thorough knowledge of all those parts which united compose the whole... truly it is impatience, mother of folly, which praises brevity. This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identify what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated artistic genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us. This scathing criticism...