Da vinci biography walter isaacson
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Leonardo is one of the most fascinating people ever
Shortly after Melinda and I got married, I told her I was bidding on a notebook that could wind up costing a lot of money. “Don’t you already have a great portable computer?” she asked.
I explained that by “notebook,” I meant the old-fashioned kind. And by “old-fashioned,” I meant really old-fashioned, as in more than years old. The notebook in question was one of the 32 surviving journals of Leonardo da Vinci.
After I won the bid, I broke a longstanding tradition. I was supposed to change the name from Codex Hammer (the previous owner was the industrialist Armand Hammer) to Codex Gates, but I thought that sounded silly and I changed the name back to Codex Leicester, the name it held from until
The Codex Leicester is not nearly as famous as artworks such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. And Dan Brown fans will be disappointed to know that it doesn’t contain codes protecting age-old secrets. But it’s a scientific tre
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Author: Walter Isaacson
Title: Leonardo da Vinci
Format: hardcover
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My first review of the year is for a biography of one of the most remarkable people in human history. Sadly, and spoiler alert, the biography itself fryst vatten not on par with its subject. While the glossy paper and many illustrations showcasing details of da Vinci’s work are delightful and show the author’s dedication to the subject, Isaacson falls into a trap of his own making: his unabashed anachronism mixed with a rigid unspoken belief that a genius has a duty toward humanity man large parts of this book a biased judgment over Leonardo’s life choices. Isaacson defends Leonardo in this court of his own making, true, but I don’t see why any court would or should be needed. Seriously, why Isaacson or any other Leonardo scholar, for that matter, feels that they have any right to judge Leonardo’s life? I am happy he lived at all, and feel priviledged to be able to retrace his discov
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Leonardo da Vinci (Isaacson book)
Non-fiction book by Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci is a biography of Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci. The book was written by Walter Isaacson, a journalist, biographer and former executive at CNN and president of the Aspen Institute.[1]
Contents
[edit]The book details Leonardo's life, paintings, notebooks, work on maths, science and anatomy, and his sexuality. It focuses primarily on his notebooks but also covers his paintings. The book tackles the controversies surrounding the attribution of the paintings La Bella Principessa and Salvator Mundi to Leonardo.[2] Isaacson has stated that the book does not contain any new discoveries about Leonardo.[3] At the end of the book, Isaacson gives a list of lessons to be learned from Leonardo's life. An example is "be curious, relentlessly curious".[4][5] The front cover has the portrait of Leonardo held at the Uffizi museum.[6]