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Leonardo: The Artist and the Man

by Serge Bramly · 1988

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"A considerable work of assimilative scholarship and common sense...races along merrily."—The Boston Globe.

Subject
biographyhistorymemoirscience
Themes
art
Setting
RenaissanceItaly
Audience
adult
Length
long · 512 pages

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