  | Book Details Title: Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts |
Book DescriptionAbout the Author Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, Trinity College, Oxford University,Robert B. Simon, Company President, Robert Simon Fine Art,Margaret Dalivalle, Associate lecturer in Art History, Middlebury-CMRS, OxfordMartin Kemp FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Trinity College, Oxford University. One of the world’s leading authorities on Leonardo da Vinci, he has published extensively on his life and work, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci: The marvellous works of nature and man, Leonardo, Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon, and Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting (with Giuseppe Pallanti). He currently speaks, writes, and broadcasts full-time.Robert B. Simon is an art historian and art dealer in New York, specializing in Renaissance and Baroque paintings. He received his doctorate at Columbia University , and has published and lectured widely on both art-historical matters and on broader concerns relating to the authenticity, valuation, conservation, and commercial trade of works of art. Significant paintings, drawings, and sculpture from his gallery are to be found in major American museums, as well as in private collections worldwide.Margaret Dalivalle read History of Art at Oriel College, University of Oxford, after which she took up a post-doctoral research fellowship at Yale University. Subsequently, as Francis Haskell Memorial Fund scholar, she conducted research into the history of collecting old master drawings in The Netherlands. She teaches Renaissance and early modern European art history at the Middlebury Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford. Read more Customers Review: This is a delicious romp into nerdy detail–oh, I already said that in the headline. It gives you detailed info on how the painting was treated when discovered, and the history behind it. The lengthy third part offers a very detailed account of the art collecting habits of the Stuart dynasty. This book is wonderful. This is a book I’ve been waiting for for years, as I love the painting. I’m bummed that it didn’t wind up in the Metropolitan in NYC or the MFA in Boston but there we are. I only hope that it doesn’t wind up above the fireplace in some tycoon’s rec room. A must read for anyone interested not only in Leonardo as an artist but also for anyone interested in the evolution of the Leonardo brand, to put it in modern terms. The description of the art market during the time of the. Stuart dynasty is helpful as the trail of the painting is traced through its various locations.
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