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Indlæser... Leonardo da Vinciaf Sherwin Nuland
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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. He detects the siren voice that so often lured the great artist into the arms of science - Leonardo's fascination with anatomy, first as the basis for his paintings and then as the crucial component in his aim to systematize all knowledge of nature. 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Part One: Biography of Leonardo Da Vinci, &
Part Two: Venerating his Anatomic Works
Here's how I felt about each part.
Part One: Oh wow, he's pretty smart, too bad no one really listened to him.
Part Two: MY BOY, WHY! You're SO fucking smart, yet you didn't think to write a SINGLE book for the betterment of mankind?! Why did no one listen to him?! Whyyyy (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)
Overall: Yeah, it's a good book. This is one of the first non-fiction books I've ever read, and I'm very glad that it is. I should give it five stars, but I feel that Part Two drags a bit, and that whole controversy on whether Da Vinci was gay or not kind of comes off as a bit iffy to me. Don't get me wrong, I think the author approached it quite tastefully, but he's a little too confident with his speculations, and a bit invasive. All in all, what wonderful little biography, I certainly found the life of Da Vinci to be worth the read. ( )