马丁·坎普(Martin Kemp)在一篇与历史研究交织在一起的引人入胜的个人叙述中，探讨了他沉浸在达芬奇世界中的生活，以及他与伟大和平庸的学者、收藏家和策展人、狡诈的交易商和油滑的拍卖商、主要学者和作家、伪历史学家和幻想家的接触。通过专家的视角来审视伟大的杰作，从最后的晚餐到塞尔瓦托·芒迪(Salvator Mundi)的作品，我们可以直接了解到围绕作品归属的棘手问题，以及鉴赏力的持续重要性。

In an engaging personal narrative interwoven with historical research, Martin Kemp discusses a life spent immersed in the world of Leonardo, and his encounters with great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors, pseudo-historians and fantasists. He shares how he has grappled with swelling legions of ‘Leonardo loonies’, walked on the eggshells of vested interests in academia and museums, and fended off fusillades of non-Leonardos, sometimes more than one a week. Examining the greatest masterpieces, from the Last Supperto Salvator Mundi, through the expert’s eye, we learn first-hand of the thorny questions that surround attribution, the scientific analyses that support the experts’ interpretations, and the continuing importance of connoisseurship.