Synopsis

After suffering a major artistic disappointment in Milan, Leonardo seems to have renounced art and instead worked briefly as a military engineer for the ruthless leader of the Papal armies (and illegitimate son of the Pope) Cesare Borgia. But after his time with Borgia, he returned to art and created his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa.

A LOST LEONARDO is a fictionalized account of that time in Leonardo’s life when he was struggling with the question of his identity, and with the responsibility creators bear to and for their creations.