Stephen J. Campbell: LEONARDO DA VINCI: AN UNTRACEABLE LIFE (with Elizabeth Cropper)

To what extent does a historical figure become a myth over time? In this original and provocative book, Stephen Campbell examines the strangeness of Leonardo da Vinci’s words and works, and considers how our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern myth.

It is a book that begs for conversation. We are fortunate that Campbell, Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, will join with Elizabeth Cropper, former Dean of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advance Study in the Visual Arts, to celebrate the book on its publication date with this event.

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Stephen J. Campbell is the Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images and The Endless Periphery: Toward a Geopolitics of Art in Lorenzo Lotto’s Italy.

Elizabeth Cropper was the Dean of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advance Study in the Visual Arts (The Center) from 2000 to 2020.