Leonardo Da Vinci

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Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in 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. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. 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.

In the “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how 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 to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (The Washington Post).

Chapters

  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 01 Title

    Duration: 01min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 02 Introduction

    Duration: 25min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 03 Ch1

    Duration: 25min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 04 Ch2a

    Duration: 54min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 05 Ch2b

    Duration: 38min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 06 Ch3

    Duration: 46min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 07 Ch4

    Duration: 29min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 08 Ch5

    Duration: 13min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 09 Ch6

    Duration: 38min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 10 Ch7

    Duration: 19min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 11 Ch8

    Duration: 35min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 12 Ch9

    Duration: 18min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 13 Ch10

    Duration: 25min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 14 Ch11

    Duration: 17min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 15 Ch12

    Duration: 15min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 16 Ch13

    Duration: 22min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 17 Ch14

    Duration: 18min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 18 Ch15

    Duration: 24min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 19 Ch16

    Duration: 47min
  • LeonardoDaVinciUAB 20 Ch17

    Duration: 37min
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