Leonardo da Vinci

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Call Number: BOCD 921 Leonardo, Da Vinci, Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Biography / Leonardo da Vinci
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 921 Leonardo, Da Vinci	4-week checkout	On Shelf
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Pittsfield Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Biography / Leonardo da Vinci	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Biography / Leonardo da Vinci	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / Biography / Leonardo da Vinci	4-week checkout	Due 05-01-2024

Compact discs.
"Includes a PDF of illustrations."
Read by Alfred Molina.
Draws on da Vinci's notebooks as well as new discoveries about his life and work in a narrative portrait that connects the master's art to his science, demonstrating how da Vinci's genius was based on ordinary qualities, including curiosity and imagination.
"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The [bestselling biographer] brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Drawing on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and 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, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from standing at the intersection of the humanities and technology. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history's most memorable smile on the Mona Lisa. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo's lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions. His ability to combine art and science, made iconic by his drawing of what may be himself inside a circle and a square, remains the enduring recipe for innovation. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it--to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different."--Case.

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