The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint

“[The Shadow Drawing] reorients our perspective, distills a life and brings it into focus—the very work of revision and refining that its subject loved best.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

An entirely new account of Leonardo the artist and Leonardo the scientist, and why they were one and the same man.

Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated as the epitome of genius. He was the masterful painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, and the visionary inventor...