Chiaroscuro #4

The fourth chapter of DC Vertigo's Chiaroscuro: The Private Lives of Leonardo da Vinci arrives with a cover that feels more like a Renaissance photograph than a comic book — a bearded, long-haired man rests his head in his hand, eyes closed in contemplation, while shadowy equine figures swirl dramatically in the background. Cover artists Stephen John Phillips and Richard Bruning blend painterly atmosphere with photorealistic technique to striking effect. Writers David Rawson and Pat McGreal, with interior art by Chas Truog and Rafael Kayanan, continue their mature-readers exploration of the great Renaissance mind in "Book Four: Dispero.