Books by Kenneth Clark
“One of the most authoritative, and compellingly written biographies of Ruskin” Read more...
Michael Glover, Artists & Art Critic
“It’s a beautiful book. And Leonardo has been fortunate in some of the writers who have tackled him……The book as a whole conveys wonderful shape to Leonardo’s art and life. And Clark is more right about aspects of his science and engineering than he has any right to be. He kept clear of the science, he didn’t really tackle it head on, yet via the art and via the drawings, he gets an enormous amount right about Leonardo’s scientific opus. “ Read more...
The best books on Leonardo da Vinci
Martin Kemp, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Interviews where books by Kenneth Clark were recommended
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
by E.H. Gombrich -
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Leonardo da Vinci: i documenti e le testimonianze contemporanee
by Edoardo Villata -
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The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Kenneth Clark
The best books on Leonardo da Vinci, recommended by Martin Kemp
The best books on Leonardo da Vinci, recommended by Martin Kemp
Every generation has its own Leonardo, and for many he remains a man of mystery. Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor in Art History at Oxford and the author of Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting, helps us identify the non-mythical Leonardo. What might Leonardo be doing were he alive today, in our own digital age?
The best books on John Ruskin, recommended by Michael Glover
As a believer in the humanising nature of proper work, the virtues of sustained attention and the value of aesthetics as the keystone to ideals for a truly prosperous society, John Ruskin’s abiding concerns are still very much with us today. On the bicentenary of this eminent Victorian’s birth, Michael Glover, author of the idiosyncratic Ruskin Dictionary, explains why we should still be reading Ruskin closely in the twenty first century.
