Leonardo's Nephew: Essays On Art And Artists - Softcover

Fifteen delightful pieces on art and art history for the intelligent general reader rather than the specialist. The range is enormously wide: from a piece that argues that the Egyptian funerary portraits weren't death pictures at all, to a biographical essay on Leonardo's talented nephew who died tragically young, to a considered view of Nazi art. And four major pieces on Seurat, Degas and Picasso. Fully illustrated, this is marvellous reading for all those who love painting and sculpture.

James Fenton is Professor of Poetry at Oxford but his private passion is painting and sculpture. He was theatre critic of The Sunday Times for 5 years, and south-east Asian correspondent of the Independent for 3. His most recent book of poems OUT OFDANGER was published by Penguin in 1993.