Leonardo da Vinci
eBook - 2017
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life" (The New Yorker).Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson "deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo" (San Francisco Chronicle) in 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.... He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart,...
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Simon & Schuster
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- English
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File Size | 135 GB |
ISBN | 9781501139178 |
Release Date | 10/17/2017 |
Kindle Book | |
ISBN | 9781501139178 |
ASIN | B071Y385Q1 |
Release Date | 10/17/2017 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 462 GB |
ISBN | 9781501139178 |
Release Date | 10/17/2017 |