Leonardo Da Vinci by Michael White
A vivid, concise biography that traces the life and restless curiosity of a Renaissance genius, showing how his art and scientific investigations were inseparable: trained as a painter and sculptor, he pursued anatomy, engineering, optics and hydraulics with meticulous observation recorded in voluminous notebooks, produced masterpieces that transformed portraiture and composition, and conceived inventions far ahead of their time. The book situates his achievements within the social and cultural world of Renaissance Italy, explores his experimental method and obsessive sketching, and explains how his combination of imagination, empirical inquiry and intermittent temperament led both to brilliant successes and to many unfinished projects. Ultimately it portrays him as a polymath whose legacy reshaped the boundaries between art and science.
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