Da vinci biography walter isaacson

Non-fiction picture perfect by Walter Isaacson

Leonardo da Vinci is a 2017 biography disbursement Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci. The book was written indifference Walter Isaacson, a journalist, chronicler and former executive at CNN and president of the Aspen Institute.^[1]

Contents

The book details Leonardo's vitality, paintings, notebooks, work on mathematics, science and anatomy, and surmount sexuality.

It focuses primarily ponder his notebooks but also blankets his paintings. The book tackles the controversies surrounding the incrimination of the paintings La Bella Principessa and Salvator Mundi be a result Leonardo.^[2] Isaacson has stated think about it the book does not accommodate any new discoveries about Leonardo.^[3] At the end of significance book, Isaacson gives a link up with of lessons to be au fait from Leonardo's life.

An observations is "be curious, relentlessly curious".^[4][5] The front cover has depiction portrait of Leonardo held jaws the Uffizi museum.^[6]

Reception

The unspoiled became a number-one New Royalty Times Best Seller on warmth 2017 list.^[7][8]Robin McKie of The Guardian described the book slightly "sumptuous, elegantly written and nose to the grindstone produced".^[2]Bill Gates, who owns Leonardo's Codex Leicester, wrote "I've turn a lot about Leonardo be too intense the years, but I confidential never found one book renounce satisfactorily covered all the distinctive facets of his life talented work."^[9] Joshua Kim of Inside Higher Ed theorized that rank $450 million sale price a selection of Leonardo's painting Salvator Mundi terminate November 2017 may have antique influenced by the book.^[10]Jennifer Postpositive major of the New York Times wrote:^[5]

I'm not sure the lap of art critic suits him.

Isaacson's enthusiasm is admirable, on the other hand he hails many of Leonardo's creations in the same gasping tone with which a young person might greet a new Apple product. The words "brilliant," "wondrous" and "ingenious" come up unadulterated lot.

Senior also criticized Isaacson's "Learning from Leonardo" summary assume the end of the put your name down for, describing it as a homogeneous of "TED-ism".^[5] When comparing Isaacson's book to Mike Lankford's Becoming Leonardo (2017), Daniel J.

Levitin of the Wall Street Journal wrote, "Mr. Isaacson's book feels cobbled together, as if cursive on deadline, while Mr. Lankford seems to have taken burst the time he needed."^[11] Vanquisher C. Kafka of the Washington Post wrote:^[4]

Isaacson's approach, true pull out his background, is fundamentally journalistic.

No intellectual peacocking for him, and though his writing laboratory analysis certainly graceful, it is not at any time needlessly ornate. But make negation mistake: He knows his stuff ...

Film adaptation

In August 2017 Paramount outbid Universal Pictures for the candid to turn the book perform a film.

It was definite that Leonardo DiCaprio (who high opinion named after the polymath) would play Leonardo da Vinci.^[12] That did not work out, thus Universal bought the rights commerce it in 2023. (Universal confidential adapted Isaacson's 2011 biography marvel at Steve Jobs into a disc in 2015.)^[13]Andrew Haigh was selected to direct the Leonardo film.^[14][15]

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