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Wonderful view on Leonardo's work

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 1 June 2023

Whoever appreciate Mona Lisa, would want to know what this genius must have been like. I'd like include myself in this list of people who adore the Mona list. Just out of curiosity to know about Leonardo I read this. It is a wonderful read.

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Amogh Thakur

Quality 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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Ameenulla.G

Wonderful view on Leonardo's work

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 1 June 2023

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 31 May 2023

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I'm an artist and always fascinated by Leonardo de Vinci, finally found a book worthy for all artist. Detailed information with Vinci's paintings really helps us to read more and more. You will learn a lot from this book.

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Ashwin R

An Art piece than a book

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 1 April 2023

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Da vinci, the man who had curiosity which never burns out. Absolute gem. Good paper,print, material quality no issues but it would have been nice if they shopped this book in box rather than in parcelcover(eventhough they had bubble wrapped around it.) Got some minor dents at corner.nothing big

PLEASE GO FOR HARDCOVER VERSION , EVEN PRICE OF HARDCOVER AND PAPERBACK IS SAME NOW {RS 1299},YOU WONT REGRET.

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CP Singh

Aaaah! Beauty ❤️😍

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 17 March 2023

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Rohan jora

Truly a Gem

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 January 2022

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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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Master work by Walter Isaacson...Must have book in your personal collection

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 18 April 2018

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This is fantastic book written by Isaacson on Da Vinci. Very inspiring if you are interested in life long learning, curiosity, innovation. Not only this book gives an entertaining account of Da Vinci's life bit also sheds light on his work ethics, methods used by him while learning many things. He was true polymath in renaissance era. He had genius level mastery in engineering, arts and literature. He left thousands of pages of his notebooks that he used to always used to carry with him and copiously write into. And he has written extensively on his interests and his methods as he was big fan of daily To Do lists.
The book also gives account of his personal life. The real beauty of this book is all those color photographs of various renaissance era art like paintings and statues. The author also 'explains' these art works done by da Vinci and other contemporary artists. Isaacson also gives us context and background for each art work and tells us subtle nuances that differentiates that art work. Consider it as a quick and easy art appreciation course. The book is hard cover and printed on thick, good quality paper. In one of his interview the author tells us why he insisted on high quality printing. He said while writing book on Jobs they could not find many of his past emails written in 1990s. On the other hand Da Vinci has left some much of his writing behind and that is accessible even after 500 years because it is on the paper. He says he became believer in old technology like paper. I suggest the same to you. Do not buy kindle version. Buy paper copy for your collection. You will enjoy it more.
Anyway all these these color pictures on nice thick paper and their explanation by the author takes this book to different league altogether. This alone will ensure a permanent place for this book in your personal library.
I can strongly recommend this book to the students, artists, entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists and life long learners. They will get a lot out of this brilliant book. Parents should encourage their college going kids to read this book.

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shashwat

At the end of the book you will proud to belong to the same specie as leonardo.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 3 August 2022

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Its a roller coaster ride. Sometimes hard to get but the width of leonardo talent will blow your mind. From his master painting to his anatomical studies and all this 500 yrs ago. His curiosity made him do things which werent seem possible during his time. It is not a book but a journey . Enjoy it.

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Tippu Sulthan

yeah fine

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 28 June 2022

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it's a good book but it's laggy at some place other than that it's a great book

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Atul

Ebook quality is good. But Hardcopy is recommended to appreciate the work.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 26 September 2021

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Well-paced comprehensive biography that is pleasure to read and will definitely ignite curiosity.
I read it on my Kindle with viewing his paintings on a computer. Such an exciting experience. However, Without a doubt buy a hardcopy !!

My favorite quotes from the book,
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
“He never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles.”
"Talent hits a target that no one else can hit," wrote the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. "Genius hits a target no one else can see."

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22l

Beautiful and artistic but thanks to Amazon it got a dent...

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 19 July 2020

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What a beautiful book this is,I haven't started reading it but the look of the book is just gorgeous,this is the best book I have ever bought.
The page quality of this book is just stunningly amazing,never had a book having such good quality pages.
I bought it for 799 and this is the most costly book I ever bought apart from my academic books,but I would say it's okay to pay that price, because it's quality is amazing and the content is invaluable.
Can't wait to read this book.
Amazing
But as good as the book is,the delivery was a bit rough, because the book got a dent and it's not expected from Amazon,they packagded it well in a plastic bag,but did not put it into a cardboard box,and that's why it got a dent.
I should say you should read this book...

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