Leonardo, psychoanalysis & art history
Subtitle: a critical study of psychobiographical approaches to Leonardo Da Vinci
By: Bradley I. Collins.
Contributors: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
Series: Psychosocial issues
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Criticism and interpretation; Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Psychology; Psychoanalysis and art
Other titles: Leonardo, psychoanalysis, and art history
Description: Whether psychoanalysis can, in fact, add to our understanding of art has long been a source of contention among art historians and psychoanalysts. Leonardo, Psychoanalysis, and Art History is the latest round of a lively intellectual debate that has taken place between the two disciplines over the decades.

Using Freud's Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood as a starting point, Collins employs psychoanalytic theory to deepen and expand the psychobiographical understanding of the artist. He evaluates the factual and art historical basis for psychoanalytic claims, and the extent to which these claims illuminate specific works by Leonardo da Vinci.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.