Inventing Leonardo

As he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo's relevance to our own ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.

A. Richard Turner is Professor of Fine Arts at New York University and the author of The Vision of Landscape in Renaissance Italy and co-author of The Art of Florence.

Acknowledgments    
Introduction    

PART I
A WORKING LIFE
Chapter 1 The Making of an Artist-Artisan    
Chapter 2 Ducal Servant in Milan    
Chapter 3 The Itinerant Engineer    

PART II
THE ANATOMY OF A LEGEND
Chapter 4 Giorgio Vasari Invents Leonardo    
Chapter 5 Playing by the Rules    
Chapter 6 Leonardo Goes Public    
Chapter 7 Leonardo the Harbinger of Modernity    
Chapter 8 The Mind of the Maker    

PART III
LEONARDO NOW
Chapter 9 The Triumph of the Eye/I    
Chapter 10 Possessing the World    
Chapter II The Body as Nature and Culture    
Chapter 12 A Blessed Rage for Order    

Epilogue: 1492-2019    
Bibliography    
Index