Leonardo da Vinci certainly epitomizes the Renaissance man, and this year marks the 500th anniversary of his death?and his genius. Martin Kemp?is one of the world?s leading experts on Leonardo. His book, Leonardo by Leonardo, is a stunning gallery of the master?s 27 existing paintings paired with Kemp?s lifetime of scholarship and insight. And it includes extensive reflections by Leonardo himself. - Christiane Amanpour, Amanpour & Co, PBS-TV/CNNGiven that his name will forever be synonymous with the ?Mona Lisa? ? ?considered by many to be the world?s most famous picture,? says Kemp ? it?s worth noting that Leonardo?s prolific, nearly five-decade oeuvre included only 20 paintings at most. In Leonardo by Leonardo, Kemp narrows his focus to this medium alone....The works, presented with remarkable clarity and fidelity, and in impressively large scale, reveal the extent of the master?s contributions to virtually all modes of painting in his time. - The New York Times Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading experts on Leonardo da Vinci, was trained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute, London. His 25 books include The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (Yale), and The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Chicago). He has published and broadcast extensively on Leonardo da Vinci, including the prize-winning Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man and Leonardo (both Oxford). His Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon (Oxford) looks at 11 types of icons across a wide range of public imagery. He has written regularly for Nature, his essays for which have been published as Visualizations and developed in Seen and Unseen (both Oxford). His most recent books are Art in History (Profile Books) and Mona Lisa with Giuseppe Pallanti (Oxford). Living with Leonardo (Thames and Hudson) was published in March 2018. Kemp has been a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and The British Museum. He has curated and co-curated a series of exhibitions on Leonardo and other themes, including "Circa 1492" at the National Gallery in Washington, "Spectacular Bodies" at the Hayward Gallery in London, "Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design" at the Victoria and Albert Museum and "Seduced: Sex and Art from Antiquity to Now," at the Barbican Art Gallery in London.