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The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers & creatives It takes the 50 defining facts dates thoughts habits & achievements of each subject & uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots The result is a quickfire journey through truths & trivia that is the most entertaining way to follow in the footsteps of the men & women whose lives have most influenced our own Many people know that Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath one of the great creative minds of the Italian Renaissance What perhaps they don't know is that as an ambidextrous paranoid dyslexic Leonardo could draw forwards with one hand while writing backwards with the other; & that he invented an armoured car a flying ship & contact lenses Biographic Leonardo presents an array of irresistible facts & figures converted into infographics to reveal the master behind the masterpieces ...

Painter inventor architect scientist & engineer Leonardo da Vinci stands to this day as one of the most accomplished human beings ever to have lived Whether the smallest arteries of the human heart exquisite biblical scenes or far-flung constellations of the universe explore his insatiable quest for knowledge invention & beauty 96 pages Zoellner Frank ...

& In this painting of Leonardo&s there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human& Often called "the first art historian" Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo & other celebrated Renaissance artists Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin&s 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) Vasari&s works available in Penguin Classics are Lives of the Artists Volume I & Volume II ...

The 1 New York Times Bestseller Walter Isaacson is not an art historian he's simply a lover of Leonardo who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable man' Books of the Year
- The Times Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore For all his supernatural gifts as an artist & natural scientist Leonardo was resolutely human (illegitimate vegan in need of patrons) rather than the near deity of legend Isaacson is an assured guide to Leonardo's fallibility
- so many projects started so few completed
- as well as his extraordinary curiosity & his even more remarkable painterly skills that were sharpened by intense observation' Michael Prodger Books of the Year
- The Sunday Times' Infinitely curious easily distracted vain & vegetarian Leonardo is brought to vivid life in this accomplished biography'
- The Sunday Times 'an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millennium's greatest minds'
- The Observer ' Isaacson doesn't claim to make any fresh discoveries but his book is intelligently organised simply written & beautifully illustrated' Book of the Day The Guardian ' Isaacson's scholarship is impressive-he cites not only primary sources but secondary materials by art critics essayists & da Vinci's other biographers This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure'
- Publisher's Weekly"A powerful story of an exhilarating mind & lifea study in creativity how to define it how to achieve it"-The New Yorker" Vigorous insightful"-The Washington Post"A masterpiece"-San Francisco Chronicle" Luminous"-The Daily Beast ' To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life & works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging informed & insightful guide imaginable Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar & a spellbinding writer & what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages' David Mc Cullough The creator of Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) officially sold at auction in New York in November 2017 for the record-breaking sum of GBP341 million He was history's most creative genius What secrets can he teach us? Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks & new discoveries about his life & work Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves such as passionate curiosity careful observation & an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy He produced the two most famous paintings in history The Last Supper & the Mona Lisa But in his own mind he was just as much a man of science & technology With a passion that sometimes became obsessive he pursued innovative studies of anatomy fossils birds the heart flying machines botany geology & weaponry His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities & the sciences made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man made him history's most creative genius His creativity like that of other great innovators came from having wide-ranging passions He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers drew the muscles that move the lips & then painted history's most memorable smile He explored the math of optics showed how light rays strike the cornea & produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper Isaacson also describes how Leonardo's lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings & inventions Leonardo's delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity So too does his ease at being a bit of a misfit illegitimate gay vegetarian left-handed easily distracted & at times heretical His life should remind us of the importance of instilling both in ourselves & our children not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it-to be imaginative & like talented misfits & rebels in any era to think different






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The deftness of da vinci The drawings of Art History&s master genius One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius Creator of the world&s most famous paintings this scientist artist philosopher inventor builder & mechanic epitomized the great flowering of human consciousness that marks his era Leonardo da Vinci
- The Graphic Work features finest top quality reproductions of 663 of Leonardo&s drawings from anatomical studies to architectural plans from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits All of the drawings more than half of which were provided by the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle are presented in full-page format Delve in & delight in the delicate finesse of one of the most talented minds & hands in history
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An all-new jewel-like reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller Leonardo da Vinci "artist inventor & prototypical Renaissance man" is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect & boundless curiosity about the natural & man-made world During his life he created numerous works of art & kept voluminous notebooks that detailed his artistic & intellectual pursuits The collection of writings & art in this magnificent book are drawn from his notebooks The book organizes his wide range of interests into subjects such as human figures light & shade perspective & visual perception anatomy botany & landscape geography the physical sciences & astronomy architecture sculpture & inventions Nearly every piece of writing throughout the book is keyed to the piece of artwork it describes The writing & art is selected by art historian H Anna Suh who provides fascinating commentary & insight into the material making Leonardo&s Notebooks an exquisite single-volume compendium celebrating his enduring genius ...

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