Messengers of InfinityOn the Pictorial Logic of Leonardo da Vinci\nAuthor(s): Eyal Peretz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855801538, 979-8855801538\nSynopsis\nThe first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as a systematic whole.\n\nPresented here is the first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as a systematic whole. It is not written from the point of view of an art historian, even as it tries to benefit from art historical insights and procedures, but that of contemporary continental philosophy and theories of modern artistic media. Author Eyal Peretz's main objective is to understand the historical and logical place Leonardo's paintings occupy in the transition from the age of medieval sacred images to Renaissance or early modern painting. Leonardo, Peretz argues, introduced a media revolution, which has still not .