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figure.' - Publisher's Weekly 'To read this magnificent biography
of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour
through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human
beings...
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'Isaacson's scholarship is impressive-he cites not only primary
sources but secondary materials by art critics, essayists, and da
Vinci's other biographers. This is a monumental tribute to a
titanic figure.' - Publisher's Weekly 'To read this magnificent
biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life
and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time
in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide
imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a
spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be
learned in these pages.' David McCullough Based on thousands of
pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries
about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that
connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was
based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate
curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that
it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings
in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind,
he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion
that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of
anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany,
geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of
the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of
Vitruvian Man, made him history's most creative genius. His
creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having
wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers,
drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history's
most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how
light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing
perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how
Leonardo's lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions
informed his paintings and inventions. Leonardo's delight at
combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for
creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit:
illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and
at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of
instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received
knowledge but a willingness to question it-to be imaginative and,
like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.