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Leonardo da Vinci

De : Walter Isaacson
Lu par : Alfred Molina
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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). Akademiker & Spezialisten Historisch Kunst & Literatur Künstler, Architekten & Fotografen Wissenschaft & Technik

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I love Walter Isaacson’s books. He seems to go in with open eyes, no matter the subject and tries to paint a clear and unbiased picture. A picture that dazzles with details and stories that are labeled as fact or fiction. I wish we had an Isaacson book of every major person in modern politics, so that people would get an idea of their own leaders…

Unbiased, deep and comprehensive portrait of the Master

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I´ve read a couple of da Vinci biographies, some where worse than this one, but some, better, too. The Author focuses on works of art, paintings, and it´s sometimes a bit hard to follow him, since you cannot see those Pictures if you´re not looking at your mobile simultaniously. I looked the paintings up, and got new insight in the works. Sadly, this biography, like every else I´ve ever read, idealises Leonardo always a bit. All in all, I can recommend this very much, although the Speaker sounds sometimes like a scoundre.

Good biography.

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Mein neues Lieblingsbuch. Isaacaon schrieb das grandiose Buch auf Anfrage von Bill Gates. :)

favourite book

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i liked everything about this audiobook. i don't know how else to describe it. definetley recomment it.

best biography i have ever listened to

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Unless you are interested in what multiple critics said about Leonardos pictures and how he drew his pictures (reported very extensively) and what the author thinks about it all, this book is not for you. Leonardo's art side is described with more detail than his science side, which I personally found a pity. Also the historical context could have been explained better by cutting on the long passages about the respective paintings.

Too detailed

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