Books: Leonardo da Vinci: Under the Skin: A Life in Drawing

摘要

In his intriguing prologue to this beautiful and desirable book, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures, remarks that Renaissance theorists valued drawing as the thinking part of art. In some of the lovely drawings reproduced, and elegantly critiqued by a Professor of Drawing and Professor of Medicine, included in it you can almost hear Leonardo thinking.