Biography of leonardo da vinci book
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Leonardo da Vinci (Isaacson book)
Non-fiction book by Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci is a 2017 biography of Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci.
Biography of leonardo da vinci book
The book was written by Walter Isaacson, a journalist, biographer and former executive at CNN and president of the Aspen Institute.[1]
Contents
The book details Leonardo's life, paintings, notebooks, work on maths, science and anatomy, and his sexuality.
It focuses primarily on his notebooks but also covers his paintings. The book tackles the controversies surrounding the attribution of the paintings La Bella Principessa and Salvator Mundi to Leonardo.[2] Isaacson has stated that the book does not contain any new discoveries about Leonardo.[3] At the end of the book, Isaacson gives a list of lessons to be learned from Leonardo's life.
An example is "be curious, relentlessly curious".[4][5] The front cover has the portrait of Leonardo held at the Uffizi museum.[6]