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In *Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind*, Charles Nicholl spends five years studying manuscripts, paintings and early biographies to craft the first full‑length English biography of the Renaissance master in decades. Using Leonardo's notebooks, sketchbooks, eye witnesses and contemporary accounts, Nicholl offers a close look at the great artist’s mental tone, physical texture, and the network that supported him. The book surfaces new details, such as an unrecognized portrait in a church near Lodi, insights into the eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, Leonardo’s homosexual liaisons in Florence, and his complex relationship with a female model or prostitute from Cremona. An authoritative and revealing study of one of history’s most enigmatic figures.
First publish date: November 18, 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Charles Nicholl
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