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LEONARDO DA VINCI Paperback

LEONARDO DA VINCI Paperback

byWalter Isaacson
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Rohan jora
5.0 out of 5 starsTruly a Gem
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 January 2022
Walter Isaacson's exceptional intelligence evokes in an organized and simple way with this masterpiece.
This book is the monumental tribute to one of the greatest geniuses ever lived: Leonardo Da Vinci, who was not merely extraordinarily smart, but also an acute observer, voraciously curious, and ingeniously creative human.

After reading the spell-binding plot of Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, I was fascinated by Leonardo and eager to read more about him. I purchased a hardcover version of Leonardo Da Vinci, The Biography by Walter Isaacson, the most prominent biographer, who has written several masterpieces including, my favorite, Steve Jobs. After completing this book, I am overwhelmed by how special he was.

The author has intelligently organized the whole life of Leonardo in 32 chapters, illustrated with full-color photographs of paintings, sketches, and diagrams from his notebooks.

Leonardo was truly one-of-a-kind. His curiosity impelled him to become among the handful of people in history who tried to know all there was to know and to know about everything that could be known. Just as an example, he put" Describe the tongue of the woodpecker " on one of his oddly inspiring to-do lists.

I'll eminently recommend this book to everyone because one can learn life-changing lessons from the life of a genius, yet also a human who did mistakes. Leonardo set an example of how acute observations, fanatic curiosity, willingness to question dogma, and ability to discern patterns across disciplines can lead to a great leap in human understanding.

Aah! The Mona Lisa is on page 476.

Rating is de facto 5/5⭐️.
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Amogh Thakur
3.0 out of 5 starsQuality issues, but a good read
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 9 March 2021
The book is a bit formed from below, else, it’s a superb book and a must read.
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apca
2.0 out of 5 stars Does not look new
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 23 July 2021
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The book looks used even though it was listed as new. The front and back cover of the book is dirty and has a lot of markings.
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Zaid Ahmed
2.0 out of 5 stars Poor Packaging
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 26 February 2020
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Books is good, but the packaging is not.
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agam
2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 16 June 2018
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Too many painting, people names, less life stories.
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Mahima
2.0 out of 5 stars Really boring
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 16 August 2019
No worth of buying highly boring content I thought it will a nice experience to read about a legend, could be better ...totally hopeless
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Dolores W Mizis
2.0 out of 5 stars Lots of info not well organized
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 28 October 2022
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He's got extensive amounts of information but I thought it poorly organized and tedious to read. He skips around too much for my taste and seems to want to put everything he knows into each sentence. To me he seems to want to impress his reader with his knowledge but he rather comes off as somebody who's read lots of books about da Vinci and is randomly pulling out tons of facts from other sources.
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pistos
2.0 out of 5 stars Tediously told
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 3 November 2022
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I really wanted to like this book. The subject matter is of interest to me. But Isaacson's telling of the story was painfully tedious, repeating himself and going on and on about details of questionable importance. I forced myself to finish the book. But it was not fun. He could have told the story in 1/4 of the space and it would have been a much more compelling and enjoyable read.
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Ron M
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Visuals
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 12 January 2018
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I purposely bought the hard cover version to better enjoy the visual and tactile experience of seeing the work of the greatest artist in the history of mankind. I was let down by the poor use of visual aids. This book is based an Issacson analysis of over 7000 pages of Leonardo’s notes. Most of these were illustrated in thumbnail size with 500 years of fading evident. Isaacson did a masterful job trying to explain what we were supposed to see, but the accompanying figures were worthless and it was impossible to see what he was trying to describe. A simple, high resolution scan, digitally enhanced and enlarged version would have added so much more. The most aggregious example was the picture of the Last Supper. It was placed on a full page but horizontally across the short dimension of the page wasting a lot of space. I had to use a magnifying glass to try and see the details Isaacson was describing. On numerous occasions, Issacson referred to sophisticated analytical tools like high resolution scans and x-ray analysis to reveal details of Leonardo’s techniques but I don’t believe there were ever any visuals presented. At one point, Isaacson referred the reader to online search’s to see these special tests imagery. It would have been nice to include them here.
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Ron Cook
2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 20 December 2021
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This is a very Indepth book. I enjoyed the author's biography of Ben Franklin and thought this would be the same. It is way too involved for the average curious person. Painfully long descriptions of each of Leonardo's artistic works, short on his life and times. It may well be that many day-to-day details of da Vinci's life no longer exist due to the passage of time. Very scholarly. Not for the average reader.
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Mark D. Levine
2.0 out of 5 stars Leonardo, while a genius far surpassing ‘run of the mill’ geniuses, was also a flake!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 9 April 2022
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Book was twice as long as it needed to be. The prose was generally clear but the material was one-dimensional. A workmanlike book that was uninspired. Leonardo deserves better.
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Victor Franca
2.0 out of 5 stars Book came with damage
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 March 2022
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