<DIV><p><b>Leonardo's life and work - the definitive edition</b><BR><br> Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This two-volume, midsize format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes.<BR><br> * Part I explores <B>Leonardo's life and work</B> in ten chapters. All of his paintings are interpreted in depth, with <I>The Annunciation</I> and <I>The Last Supper</I> featured on large double-spreads.<BR> * Part II comprises a <B><I>catalogue raisonné</I> of Leonardo's paintings</B>, which covers all of his surviving and lost painted works and includes texts describing their states of preservation.<BR> * Part III contains an <B>extensive catalogue of his drawings</B> (numbering in the thousands, they cannot all be reproduced in one book); 663 are presented, arranged by category (architecture, technical, anatomical, figures, proportion, cartography, etc).</p></DIV>