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Archive Home > 2013 > February > 03 > How the brilliant slacker completed a masterpiece

How the brilliant slacker completed a masterpiece

• Famous painting was a commission that da Vinci did not find enticing, author says

By Michael D. Schaffer / The Bulletin
February 3, 2013

“Leonardo and the Last Supper" by Ross King (Walker, 322 pgs., $28)

Leonardo da Vinci was a genius of delay, a master of the unfinished.

Brilliant ideas swirled around him like snowflakes in a flurry and melted almost as quickly. Frustrated patrons tried in vain to get him to complete....

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