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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography

Autor Walter Isaacson Cu Leonardo Da Vinci
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 oct 2018

Imaginați-vă un bărbat aplecat deasupra unui cadavru într-o penumbră umedă, jupuind cu meticulozitate straturile de piele de pe chipul unui defunct pentru a înțelege mecanica fiecărui mușchi. Nu este o scenă de groază, ci laboratorul de studiu al omului care, ulterior, avea să picteze cel mai enigmatic zâmbet din istorie. Walter Isaacson ne propune o perspectivă unică asupra lui Leonardo Da Vinci: geniul nu este o trăsătură divină, ci un produs al curiozității obsesive, al observației disciplinate și al unei imaginații care cochetează permanent cu fantezia.

Reținem din această biografie monumentală faptul că Leonardo nu a fost un „sfânt” al artei, ci un personaj marcat de o umanitate debordantă — un spirit sclipitor, dar ușor de distras, un nonconformist care și-a asumat identitatea de fiu ilegitim și vegetarian într-o epocă a dogmelor. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Isaacson reușește să lege studiile de optică și matematică ale lui Leonardo de iluziile de perspectivă din „Cina cea de Taină”, demonstrând că arta sa nu a fost un accident, ci rezultatul unei rigori științifice neobosite.

Pe același raft cu Da Vinci Notebooks de Leonardo Da Vinci, dar cu un accent pe contextul narativ și pe integrarea vieții personale în procesul creativ, această lucrare transformă mii de pagini de însemnări disparate într-o poveste coerentă despre inovație. Cartea continuă explorarea psihologiei geniului, temă centrală în opera lui Isaacson, situându-se între analiza revoluției digitale din The Innovators și portretul vizionarului contemporan din Elon Musk. Stilul este alert, cinematic, reușind să umanizeze o legendă fără a-i știrbi din măreție.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781471166785
ISBN-10: 1471166783
Pagini: 624
Ilustrații: 4c throughout
Dimensiuni: 154 x 236 x 48 mm
Greutate: 1.3 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
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De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie tuturor celor care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele creativității dincolo de mit. Cititorul va descoperi că Leonardo da Vinci a fost un „misfit” fascinant, a cărui capacitate de a vedea conexiuni între anatomie, geologie și pictură rămâne o lecție actuală despre gândirea critică și curiozitatea fără limite. Este o hartă a minții umane la apogeul său.


Despre autor

Walter Isaacson (născut în 1952) este un renumit autor, jurnalist și profesor american, fost editor al revistei Time și CEO al CNN. Absolvent al Universității Harvard și bursier Rhodes la Oxford, Isaacson s-a impus ca unul dintre cei mai importanți biografi contemporani. Portofoliul său include portrete magistrale ale unor figuri precum Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein și Benjamin Franklin. Prin scrierile sale, Isaacson explorează constant intersecția dintre știință, tehnologie și umanism, căutând să identifice trăsăturile comune ale minților care au modelat istoria modernă. În prezent, predă istorie la Universitatea Tulane.


Recenzii

‘In Isaacson, Leonardo gets the biographer he deserves – an author capable of comprehending his often frenetic, frequently weird quest to understand. This is not just a joyful book; it’s also a joy to behold…Isaacson deserves immense praise for this very human portrait of a genius
'A lavish, loving biography of the great Renaissance polymath…this sumptuous, elegantly written and diligently produced offering that perfectly catches the contradictions of the man…[a] splendid work that provides an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millenium’s greatest minds’
‘Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore. For all his supernatural gifts as an artist and natural scientist. Leonardo was resolutely human (illegitimate, vegan, in need of patrons) rather than the near deity of legend. Isaacson is an assured guide to Leonardo’s fallibility – so many projects started, so few completed – as well as his extraordinary curiosity and his even more remarkable painterly skills that were sharpened by intense observation'
'To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages'
'A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it'

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The #1 New York Times Bestseller

‘Walter Isaacson is not an art historian, he’s simply a lover of Leonardo, who manages to communicate the sheer joy of this remarkable man’

Books of the Year - The Times

‘Walter Isaacson keeps the mortal man to the fore. For all his supernatural gifts as an artist and natural scientist.  Leonardo was resolutely human (illegitimate, vegan, in need of patrons) rather than the near deity of legend.  Isaacson is an assured guide to Leonardo’s fallibility – so many projects started, so few completed – as well as his extraordinary curiosity and his even more remarkable painterly skills that were sharpened by intense observation.’  Michael Prodger, Books of the Year - The Sunday Times


'Infinitely curious, easily distracted, vain and vegetarian, Leonardo is brought to vivid life in this accomplished biography.' - The SundayTimes.

'an illuminating guide to the output of one of the last millennium's greatest minds.' - The Observer

'Isaacson doesn’t claim to make any fresh discoveries, but his book is intelligently organised, simply written and beautifully illustrated.' Book of the Day, The Guardian.



'Isaacson’s scholarship is impressive—he cites not only primary sources but secondary materials by art critics, essayists, and da Vinci’s other biographers. This is a monumental tribute to a titanic figure.' - Publisher's Weekly


“A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.”—The New Yorker

“Vigorous, insightful.”—The Washington Post

“A masterpiece.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Luminous.”—The Daily Beast

'To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages.' David McCullough

The creator of Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) officially sold at auction in New York in November 2017 for
the record-breaking sum of £341 million.

He was history’s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us?

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves 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. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. 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.

His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history’s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo’s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions.

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 of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.