“From the Infantile phantasy,” writes Brill, “which Leonardo recalled while he was still in his cradle, Freud masterfully reconstructed the whole unconscious psychic life of the most inscrutable, the fascinating personage of the Renaissance.”

In this study of Leonardo da Vinci, Freud prepared what is universally regarded as the classic example of such an analysis. No one interested in either the human mind or the human achievement in art can afford to be without a knowledge of this book.