Leonardo da Vinci

Date

1452–1519

Description

City of birth: Vinci
Country of birth: Italy
Field of activity: Culture — design, painting, drawing, engineering, science

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Quotes

‘He would go on to create the two most famous painting in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that was both playful and obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, optics, botany geology, water flows and weaponry. … As he aged, he pursued his scientific enquiries not just to serve his art but of a joyful instinct to fathom the profound beauties of creation. When he groped for a theory of why the sky appears blue, it was not simply to inform his paintings. His curiosity was pure, personal and delightfully obsessive. But even when he was engaged in blue-sky thinking, his science was not a separate endeavour from his art. Together they served his driving passion, which was nothing less than knowing everything there was to know about the world, including how we fit into it. … Yes, he was a genius: wildly imaginative, passionately curious, and creative across multiple disciplines.’

Author

Walter Isaacson

Title of the publication

Leonardo da Vinci

Other contributors

n/a

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Simon & Schuster

City of publication

New York

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

2017

Location [pp. or web]

Introduction - I Can Also Paint

Other location

https://bit.ly/2XqnphQ

Original language

English

Genre

Book

Context

Walter Isaacson is an American analyst, author, journalist and professor. He has been the CEO and President of the Aspen Institute, CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography.