Da Vinci's Ghost

Vitruvian Man is the world''s most famous drawing, by one of the world''s most famous artists. The image - named after a Roman architect and engineer, Vitruvius - has become visual shorthand for artistic genius and scientific inquiry, and yet nobody knows anything about it. In Da Vinci''s Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester examines the forces that converged in 1490 to turn an idea t...