Leonardo Da Vinci by Isaacson, Walter
Leonardo Da Vinci by Isaacson, Walter

Leonardo Da Vinci

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this...
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Leonardo Da Vinci by Isaacson, Walter

Leonardo Da Vinci

$73.31
Leonardo Da Vinci by Isaacson, Walter

Leonardo Da Vinci

$73.31
Author: Walter Isaacson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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).

Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 10/17/2017
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.00lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781501139154


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2017 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 09/11/2017
Library Journal 10/15/2017 pg. 90
Booklist 10/15/2017 pg. 18
BookPage 11/01/2017
Choice 06/01/2018

About the Author
Walter Isaacson, a professor of history at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; The Innovators; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.
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