The Fantasia of Leonardo da Vinci: His Riddles, Jests, Fables, and Bestiary

He was a polymathic genius, but Leonardo da Vinci was also playful, fanciful-and often fearful of humans' fate. Bestselling author and scholar Ross King shows you the Leonardo behind the canvas, as the artist tells the tales he might have told at court and to friends over dinner. Ross' perceptive narrative guides us through this little-known Leonardo: his bestiary, fables, jests and riddles. We see his fantasia (Italian for imagination) in the context of his time, and that makes all the difference. It's a revealing portrait of a Leonardo unknown through history to all but the most diligent and perceptive of scholars. Ross was asked to write this original work because of his authority in the field of Italian Renaissance art. With images from the Royal Collection at Windsor, and beautifully rendered in Tuscan colors with a design that's pure fantasia. Only from Levenger