A Portrait of Leonardo: The life and times of Leonardo da Vinci-- a literary picture book

Strip back the layers of varnish and discover the man behind the masterpieces, the personality that drove one of the greatest minds in history.

Donovan, as he did with Mozart: The Man Behind the Music and Much Ado About Shakespeare, sets out to discover the person behind the myth.

Using Leonardo’s own massive supply of notebooks as well as myriad other writings from the time, Donovan shows why, as well as what, Leonardo created in so many areas of life. Like no other biography, this book fu...