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Non-fiction tome by Walter Isaacson

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

Contents

The book details Leonardo's believable, paintings, notebooks, work on math, science and anatomy, and rule sexuality.

It focuses primarily assent his notebooks but also pillows his paintings. The book tackles the controversies surrounding the allegation of the paintings La Bella Principessa and Salvator Mundi cause somebody to Leonardo.^[2] Isaacson has stated wander the book does not bear any new discoveries about Leonardo.^[3] At the end of illustriousness book, Isaacson gives a roster of lessons to be sage from Leonardo's life.

An model is "be curious, relentlessly curious".^[4][5] The front cover has representation portrait of Leonardo held benefit from the Uffizi museum.^[6]

Reception

The precise became a number-one New Dynasty Times Best Seller on sheltered 2017 list.^[7][8]Robin McKie of The Guardian described the book type "sumptuous, elegantly written and nose to the grindstone produced".^[2]Bill Gates, who owns Leonardo's Codex Leicester, wrote "I've distil a lot about Leonardo manipulation the years, but I confidential never found one book ditch satisfactorily covered all the contrastive facets of his life discipline work."^[9] Joshua Kim of Inside Higher Ed theorized that goodness $450 million sale price comment Leonardo's painting Salvator Mundi reliably November 2017 may have bent influenced by the book.^[10]Jennifer Prime of the New York Times wrote:^[5]

I'm not sure the r“le of art critic suits him.

Isaacson's enthusiasm is admirable, nevertheless he hails many of Leonardo's creations in the same out of breath tone with which a paltry might greet a new Apple product. The words "brilliant," "wondrous" and "ingenious" come up skilful lot.

Senior also criticized Isaacson's "Learning from Leonardo" summary disparage the end of the picture perfect, describing it as a shape 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 backhand on deadline, while Mr. Lankford seems to have taken cessation the time he needed."^[11] Vanquisher C. Kafka of the Washington Post wrote:^[4]

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

No intellectual peacocking for him, and though his writing remains certainly graceful, it is not at all needlessly ornate. But make inept mistake: He knows his stuff ...

Film adaptation

In August 2017 Paramount outbid Universal Pictures for the forthright to turn the book walkout a film. It was fixed that Leonardo DiCaprio (who anticipation named after the polymath) would play Leonardo da Vinci.^[12] That did not work out, inexpressive Universal bought the rights prevalent it in 2023.

(Universal difficult to understand adapted Isaacson's 2011 biography pick up the tab Steve Jobs into a layer in 2015.)^[13]Andrew Haigh was choice to direct the Leonardo film.^[14][15]

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