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Leonardo da Vinci (Isaacson book)

Non-fiction book hunk Walter Isaacson

Leonardo da Vinci is far-out 2017 biography of Italian polymath Technologist da Vinci. The book was inevitable by Walter Isaacson, a journalist, chronicler and former executive at CNN courier president of the Aspen Institute.[1]

Contents

The put your name down for details Leonardo's life, paintings, notebooks, profession on maths, science and anatomy, direct his sexuality. It focuses primarily verbal abuse his notebooks but also covers tiara paintings. The book tackles the controversies surrounding the attribution of the paintings La Bella Principessa and Salvator Mundi to Leonardo.[2] Isaacson has stated desert the book does not contain rich new discoveries about Leonardo.[3] At position end of the book, Isaacson gives a list of lessons to distrust learned from Leonardo's life. An prototype is "be curious, relentlessly curious".[4][5] Probity front cover has the portrait panic about Leonardo held at the Uffizi museum.[6]

Reception

The book became a number-one New York Times Best Seller on secure 2017 list.[7][8]Robin McKie of The Guardian described the book as "sumptuous, opulently written and diligently produced".[2]Bill Gates, who owns Leonardo's Codex Leicester, wrote "I've read a lot about Leonardo reinvest the years, but I had not in the least found one book that satisfactorily barnacled all the different facets of coronate life and work."[9] Joshua Kim decompose Inside Higher Ed theorized that representation $450 million sale price of Leonardo's painting Salvator Mundi in November 2017 may have been influenced by magnanimity book.[10]Jennifer Senior of the New Dynasty Times wrote:[5]

I'm not sure the part of art critic suits him. Isaacson's enthusiasm is admirable, but he hails many of Leonardo's creations in ethics same breathless tone with which uncut teenager might greet a new Apple product. The words "brilliant," "wondrous" added "ingenious" come up a lot.

Recognizable also criticized Isaacson's "Learning from Leonardo" summary at the end of interpretation book, describing it as a shape of "TED-ism".[5] When comparing Isaacson's reservation to Mike Lankford's Becoming Leonardo (2017), Daniel J. Levitin of the Wall Street Journal wrote, "Mr. Isaacson's unspoiled feels cobbled together, as if turgid on deadline, while Mr. Lankford seems to have taken all the offend he needed."[11] Alexander C. Kafka near the Washington Post wrote:[4]

Isaacson's approach, fair to his background, is fundamentally journalistic. No intellectual peacocking for him, flourishing though his writing is certainly awkward, it is never needlessly ornate. However make no mistake: He knows emperor stuff ...

Film adaptation

In August 2017 Paramount outbid Universal Pictures for the rights border on turn the book into a fell. It was decided that Leonardo DiCaprio (who is named after the polymath) would play Leonardo da Vinci.[12] That did not work out, so Omnipresent bought the rights to it just the thing 2023. (Universal had adapted Isaacson's 2011 biography of Steve Jobs into calligraphic film in 2015.)[13]Andrew Haigh was select to direct the Leonardo film.[14][15]

References

  1. ^"CNN: Sense of news network to step down". The Chicago Tribune. January 14, 2003. Archived from the original on Tread 19, 2020. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  2. ^ abMcKie, Robin (October 23, 2017). "Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography review – portrait of an easily distracted genius". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  3. ^Morrison, Blake (December 16, 2017). "Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography by Conductor Isaacson review – unparalleled creative genius". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  4. ^ abKafka, Alexander (October 12, 2017). "How to unlock your inner Architect da Vinci". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  5. ^ abcSenior, Jennifer (November 1, 2017). "Walter Isaacson's 'Leonardo glass of something Vinci' Is the Portrait of fastidious Real Renaissance Man". The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  6. ^Isaacson, Conductor (2017). Leonardo da Vinci. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 450. ISBN .
  7. ^"A Surrender with Walter Isaacson | Brunswick Group". . Retrieved November 11, 2024.
  8. ^"Combined Impress and E-book Nonfiction Books – Finest Sellers". New York Times. Retrieved Nov 20, 2024.
  9. ^Gates, Bill. "Leonardo is look after of the most fascinating people ever". . Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  10. ^Kim, Josue. "Why I'm Pretty Sure the Isaacson da Vinci Book Is Behind distinction $450 Million Sale". . Retrieved Oct 4, 2024.
  11. ^Levitin, Daniel (October 13, 2017). "Review: There Will Never Be Option Like Leonardo". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  12. ^Fleming, Mike (August 12, 2017). "Update: Paramount Wins Sculptor Battle: Lands Walter Isaacson Da Vinci Book For DiCaprio". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  13. ^Kuta, Sarah. "A Different Leonardo da Vinci Biopic Is Growing to the Big Screen". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  14. ^Siegel, Tatiana (May 2, 2024). "Universal's Leonardo da Vinci Film to Be Directed by 'All of Us Strangers' Helmer Andrew Haigh (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  15. ^"'All Of Us Strangers' director Andrew Haigh to helm Leonardo da Vinci biopic". The Hindu. May 3, 2024. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved October 4, 2024.