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).
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