An edition of Leonardo's holy child (2016)

Leonardo's holy child

the discovery of a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece : a connoisseur's search for lost art in America : a memoir of discovery

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An edition of Leonardo's holy child (2016)

Leonardo's holy child

the discovery of a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece : a connoisseur's search for lost art in America : a memoir of discovery

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Fred Kline is a well-known art historian, dealer, connoisseur, and explorer who has made a career of scouring antique stores, estate sales, and auctions looking for unusual and often misidentified works of art. Many of the gems he has found are now in major museum collections like the Frick, the Getty, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. About ten years ago, when Kline was routinely combing through a Christie's catalog, a beautiful little drawing caught his eye. Attributed to Carracci, it came with a very low estimate, but Kline's every instinct told him that the attribution was wrong. He placed a bid and the low asking price and bought the drawing outright. And that was the beginning of how Kline discovered Leonardo da Vinci's model drawing for the Infant Jesus and the Infant St. John.

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Pegasus Books
Language
English
Pages
360

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Table of Contents

Part I. Leonardo's Holy Child
The discovery (purchasing drawing at Christie's auction; FRK background)
Two miracles (Jann's Peruzzi)
The pursuit of connoisseurship (close examination of Holy Child)
Leonardo's Codex of one sheet (summation)
Part II. A search for lost art in America
The lost Virgin of the new world (New World Virgin Mary)
Wandering paintings in search of an author (George Caleb Bingham)
Paradise Brueghel and the French spider (Jan Brueghel the Elder)
Wild Bill Hickok, gunfighter and poet (Wild Bill Hickok)
A masterpiece for my brother (Joseph Anton Koch)
The divine beauty of nature (Gottlieb Schick)
The master and the monster (Lawren Harris)
Around the world again with General Grant (William Coulter)
The Genesis Cross (New World Cross)
Aaron of Exodus, Magus in the wilderness (Pier Francesco Mola)
A Vermeer discovery (Saint Praxedis)

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
741.945
Library of Congress
N6923.L33 K585 2016, ND623

The Physical Object

Pagination
360 pages, 16 unnembered pages of plates
Number of pages
360

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27219171M
Internet Archive
leonardosholychi0000klin
ISBN 10
1605989797
ISBN 13
9781605989792
LCCN
2016387139
OCLC/WorldCat
911364611

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