Leonardo da Vinci
Author: Nuland, Sherwin
ISBN: 9780143035107
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 04 Jan 2005
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) have proved endlessly fascinating for generations. 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-as well as in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known in the twentieth century. Scholarly and passionate, Nuland's b>Leonardo da Vinci/b> takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time.
ISBN: 9780143035107
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 04 Jan 2005
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback / softback
The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) have proved endlessly fascinating for generations. 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-as well as in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known in the twentieth century. Scholarly and passionate, Nuland's b>Leonardo da Vinci/b> takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time.
