Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci
by Sherwin Nuland

Leonardo da Vinci
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Author: Sherwin Nuland
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-12-28
ISBN: 014303510X
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Book Review: Choose another book if you want to read about Leonardo
Summary: 3 Stars

A disappointment. I'm a fan of Penguin Lives series, which, tend to give a somewhat alternative -- and fascinating -- view of their subject. Not so with Nuland's Leonardo. I struggled with Nuland's use of Freud as a reference point for Leonardo, and with his belaboring Leonardo's presumed homosexuality as a reference point for understanding his life. By the time I made it past this, I admit I didn't give Nuland's manuscript my fair attention. And I'm content leaving it that way.

Summary of Leonardo da Vinci

The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452? 1519) have proved endlessly fascinating for generations. In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo?s insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject?s art, relationships, and scientific studies?as well as in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known in the twentieth century. Scholarly and passionate, Nuland?s Leonardo da Vinci takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time.

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