Saint Anne: Leonardo da Vinci's Ultimate Masterpiece

Leonardo's most accomplished painting, marshalling all the skills, intelligence, and sensitivity acquired over the years to create his most visually complex and satisfying picture. The recent restoration by the Louvre finally reveals the original image as painted by the artist, completing an idea he obsessed over for almost two decades. The scholarly analysis in the book carefully contextualizes the history of the work, and provides beautiful reproductions of his numerous preliminary sketches for the painting, and includes a plethora of images by his students and other artists testifying to its contemporary importance. One of the most in-depth and complete presentations of a major contribution to art by the most gifted mind ever to express itself through painting.

This is a great book which I enjoyed tremendously. Very imformative and well written. The picture quality of the paintings was great!