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Leonardo da Vinci: A Life From Beginning to End
October 2, 2021
(Kindle Ed. pp. 30-31)
Today, Leonardo’s notebooks have found their way into some of the world’s most prestigious collections. Some are housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle in England, the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. The Codex Leicester and a collection of Leonardo’s scientific writings are owned privately by Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. None of Leonardo’s writings were published during his lifetime, and many seemed to be prepped for just that.
(Kindle Ed. p. 3)
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci...
That's why he's been known as "da Vinci (of/ from Vinci)!" I had never thought about it until I read this book.
- You will find the book definitely intriguing and super informative despite its short length for a fast reading.
- Author's thoughtfulness for history beginners are found here and there, too.
- The book sta
Today, Leonardo’s notebooks have found their way into some of the world’s most prestigious collections. Some are housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle in England, the Louvre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. The Codex Leicester and a collection of Leonardo’s scientific writings are owned privately by Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. None of Leonardo’s writings were published during his lifetime, and many seemed to be prepped for just that.
(Kindle Ed. p. 3)
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci...
That's why he's been known as "da Vinci (of/ from Vinci)!" I had never thought about it until I read this book.
- You will find the book definitely intriguing and super informative despite its short length for a fast reading.
- Author's thoughtfulness for history beginners are found here and there, too.
- The book sta
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The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
March 9, 2016
“In the normal course of events many men and women are born with various remarkable qualities and talents; but occasionally, in a way that transcends nature, a single individ is marvellously endowed by heaven with beauty, grace, and talent in such abundance that he leaves other men far behind, all his actions seem inspired, and indeed everything he does comes from God rather than human art.”
This historian clearly admires Da Vinci, and it’s no wonder because by all accounts the man was a marvel. Vasari writes the story of the genius’s youth. His farther recognised how talented the boy was at a young age; he had him study design, and the results of such an education can clearly be seen in his legacy. It made him go onto do great things.
However, to attribute such talent to God seems a little bit defeating; it almost ignores the man behind the work, which is exactly what this account is ansträngande to portray. Vasari suggests that behind Da
This historian clearly admires Da Vinci, and it’s no wonder because by all accounts the man was a marvel. Vasari writes the story of the genius’s youth. His farther recognised how talented the boy was at a young age; he had him study design, and the results of such an education can clearly be seen in his legacy. It made him go onto do great things.
However, to attribute such talent to God seems a little bit defeating; it almost ignores the man behind the work, which is exactly what this account is ansträngande to portray. Vasari suggests that behind Da
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Leonardo da Vinci
August 17, 2013
Serge Bramly's biography of Leonardo da Vinci is a number of very different books rolled into one. It is an abstruse, highly literary treatise on a Renaissance artist and scientist, but also a tender, intimate portrait of a man Bramly clearly admired. It is a portrait of late 15th century Florence and Milan, and a biography, indeed, of the very conception, in da Vinci's time, of the artist as a tradesperson, rather than the artist-construct that exists in the present western cultural zeitgeist.
Bramly begins, from the outset, to deliberately put a healthy distance between himself and other biographers, clearly being of the opinion that he has managed to avoid many of the errors common to this type of work. He blasts others for descending into hagiography. Others, it would seem, did a great deal of extrapolating, deducing, supposing and guessing in the process of obtaining certain histories, orders of events, details from the life of the man in ques
Bramly begins, from the outset, to deliberately put a healthy distance between himself and other biographers, clearly being of the opinion that he has managed to avoid many of the errors common to this type of work. He blasts others for descending into hagiography. Others, it would seem, did a great deal of extrapolating, deducing, supposing and guessing in the process of obtaining certain histories, orders of events, details from the life of the man in ques