LEO STEINBERG
Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper
New York: Zone Books, 2001. 317 pp.; 1 color ill., 203 b/w. $46.00
"But it's only an interpretation; two years from now someone will come up with another interpretation, and then what have you got." (1) That is Leo Steinberg's impression of the response his work elicited from the profession's graybeards in the late 1950s. Interpretations, by their account, were ephemeral, rendered obsolete in the time it took to write a ...