书名：Leonardo by Leonardo / 莱奥纳多论莱奥纳多

作者：Martin Kemp

出版：Callaway ，2019

装帧：精装，192页

语种：英文

尺寸：27.9*35.5 cm

《莱奥纳多论莱奥纳多》（由马丁·J·肯普著），这位世界顶尖的列奥纳多·达·芬奇研究权威，为我们呈现了一场令人惊叹的画廊之旅，展出了这位大师现存的27幅画作，以及构成他杰作基础的预备草图。马丁·J·肯普的叙述辅以列奥纳多本人的大量文字反思，并穿插了其同时代人的视角。

列奥纳多·达·芬奇的遗产永远令人着迷。他不仅创作了被许多人视为世界上最著名的画作《蒙娜丽莎》，还彻底改变了绘画的每一个流派——宗教和世俗肖像画、虔诚的群像画以及素描。列奥纳多是西方艺术史上屹立不倒的天才。本卷中大规模且无与伦比的复制品质量，让“他画作中那种奇异而生动的存在感”得以充分展现其力量和魅力，吸引着观众。

凭借一生的学识和洞察力，马丁·J·肯普带我们走进每一件杰作的世界：艺术家与赞助人的关系；作品是如何以及为何被委托创作的；它们的图像学和象征意义；他应用的实验性绘画技法；画作历经数世纪流传、易主的故事；修复和现状；以及至今仍未解开的谜题。

在本集中呈现的艺术作品的新摄影中，我们采用了最细致入微的关怀和最先进的数字捕捉技术。我们不惜成本，以最高保真度还原作品的颜色、色调和表面质感。图像质量、超精细分辨率打印、档案级纸张和装订工艺，共同打造了一本无与伦比的书籍。其结果是艺术家与观众之间产生了一种力量和亲密感，带领我们走进艺术家的思想、眼界和灵魂。

A landmark publication on Leonardo da Vinci, the immortal Renaissance artist universally considered one of the greatest painters of all time.

Leonardo by Leonardo, by Martin J. Kemp, one of the world’s leading authorities on Leonardo da Vinci, presents an astonishing gallery of the master’s 27 existing paintings, as well as the preparatory drawings that formed the basis of his masterpieces. Martin J. Kemp’s narrative is accompanied by extensive written reflections by Leonardo, and is further highlighted by perspectives from his contemporaries.

The legacy of Leonardo da Vinci is a perennial fascination. Not only did he paint what is considered by many to be the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa, but he radically changed every genre of painting - religious and secular portraiture, devotional tableaux, and drawing. Leonardo is the genius that towers over the history of Western art. The large scale and unparalleled quality of reproduction in this volume allows “the strange, living presence of his paintings” to exercise their full power and magnetism on the viewer.

With a lifetime of scholarship and insight, Martin J. Kemp takes us inside the world of each masterwork: the artist’s relationship to his patrons; how and why the works were commissioned; their iconography and symbology; the experimental painting techniques he applied; stories of how the paintings survived and changed owners across the centuries; restoration and condition; and finally, the unsolved puzzles that remain to this day.

The utmost care and state-of-the-art digital capture technology has been applied to the new photography of the artworks presented in this collection. No expense has been spared to reproduce the artworks with the highest fidelity to color, tone, and surface. The quality of imaging, ultra-fine resolution printing, archival paper, and binding has produced a book like no other. The result is a power and intimacy between artist and viewer that takes us inside the artist’s mind, eye and spirit.