Leonardo Da Vinci [abridged]

  • Author: Walter Isaacson
  • Narrator: Alfred Molina
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 9:12:07
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Synopsis

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, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius.

In the “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (The Washington Post).

Chapters

  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 01 Title

    Duration: 01min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 02 Introduction

    Duration: 25min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 03 Ch1

    Duration: 13min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 04 Ch2

    Duration: 42min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 05 Ch3

    Duration: 23min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 06 Ch4

    Duration: 14min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 07 Ch5

    Duration: 07min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 08 Ch6

    Duration: 14min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 09 Ch7

    Duration: 09min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 10 Ch8

    Duration: 17min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 11 Ch9

    Duration: 06min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 12 Ch10

    Duration: 09min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 13 Ch11

    Duration: 06min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 14 Ch12

    Duration: 08min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 15 Ch13

    Duration: 11min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 16 Ch14

    Duration: 07min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 17 Ch15

    Duration: 14min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 18 Ch16

    Duration: 25min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 19 Ch17

    Duration: 15min
  • LeonardoDaVinciABR 20 Ch18

    Duration: 21min
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