A thorough study of the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci. Fantastic discoveries, brilliant insights, great masterpieces, and incredible turns of fate — the story of one of the most outstanding scientists and artists in the history of humankind.
Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most vivid, versatile, and enigmatic geniuses of the Renaissance.
An enormous number of legends and myths formed around him even during his lifetime. But the facts that can be assembled almost grain by grain turn out to be no less astonishing. Drawing on the manuscripts, letters, and notebooks of the Renaissance titan, Walter Isaacson tells, step by step, the astonishing story of his life — from his childhood years to flying machines; from Florence to Milan; from the creation of weapons to the theory of painting; from anatomy and astronomy to the study of fossils and soil erosion; from the Vitruvian Man to the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
By uniting science and art, Leonardo embodied an entirely new phenomenon — the “scientist-artist,” striving to grasp all the foundations of the universe and reveal every secret of life.