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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
well done! my take away from this book? Leonardo was pretty talented! ;0
Absolutely fascinating read about one of the most influential people in history. Sometimes reads more like an art history lecture in university rather than a straight biography, and the ending turning into a TED talk about how to live like Leonardo brings it down a bit, but still essential reading.
informative
medium-paced
Isaacson tem vindo a escrever biografias sobre vários criadores multidisciplinares, ou polímatas, — Benjamim Franklin (2003), Steve Jobs (2011) e Ada Lovelace (2014) — e alguns génios — Einstein (2009) e Alan Turing (2014) —, tendo a última, sobre Leonardo (2017), servido como síntese dos dois tipos de criadores, dadas as capacidades deste no abraçar de múltiplas artes (desenho, pintura, escultura, música ou arquitetura) e múltiplas ciências (engenharia, geometria, cartografia, anatomia, biologia, astronomia, ou física), e por em várias ter aprofundado e conseguido revolucionar o conhecimento existente — técnicas de pintura (sfumato e luz), geometria (perspectiva e vistas de sólidos) e engenharia (sistemas e hidráulica). Pode-se até discutir o valor de algumas das suas revoluções, mas não se pode retirar o mérito e brilhantismo de cada uma dessas inovações, o que em síntese nos obriga a colocar Leonardo no topo dos criadores de conhecimento de toda a História.
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4.5 stars.
This is excellent. It’s engaging, interesting, and exploratory in a way that I’d not normally expect a biography to be. But I guess that’s why the author has the renown he has.
I learned an unbelievable amount about an impressive number of subjects and was able to reconnect deeply with a time and set of characters I’d only ever glossed over in the past.
In the end, this well-exceeded my expectations and would broadly recommend to anyone.
This is excellent. It’s engaging, interesting, and exploratory in a way that I’d not normally expect a biography to be. But I guess that’s why the author has the renown he has.
I learned an unbelievable amount about an impressive number of subjects and was able to reconnect deeply with a time and set of characters I’d only ever glossed over in the past.
In the end, this well-exceeded my expectations and would broadly recommend to anyone.
Leonardo da Vinci é um gênio no sentido mais literal possível da palavra. A escrita de Walter Isaacson é leve e torna até os momentos monótonos da vida de Leonardo emocionantes. É satisfatório descobrir como Da Vinci lidava tranquilamente com questões sexuais, como era interessado em biologia, e que fez descobertas na medicina que nunca foram publicadas. Ele observava pássaros e tentava compreender como eles voavam. Isso tudo pelo prazer de conhecer. Para seu próprio mérito, até mesmo quando estudou óptica, era com o único objetivo de tornar suas obras artísticas mais belas — muitas vezes, essa obsessão pelo perfeccionismo o impedia inclusive de terminá-las. E é de extrema satisfação perceber Leonardo em seus manuscritos descrevendo que a história bíblica do dilúvio é extremamente improvável, e que o fato de encontrar conchas em montanhas, dispostas em estratos diferentes e organizadas, indica que provavelmente as montanhas já estiveram no nível do mar e por um processo lento e gradual, as conchas foram depositadas, contrariamente ao mito que relata uma tragédia divina vingativa e súbita, no qual, as conchas estariam espalhas de forma desigual, em um único estrato.
Como bem resumiu o próprio biógrafo:
“O maior gênio da história era filho ilegítimo, gay, vegetariano, canhoto, muito disperso e, às vezes, herético.”
Como bem resumiu o próprio biógrafo:
“O maior gênio da história era filho ilegítimo, gay, vegetariano, canhoto, muito disperso e, às vezes, herético.”
Great history of someone who is undoubtedly famous, although after this book I feel he should be remembered more for his anatomy research than painting! Thus work was lost and rediscovered as opposed to hanging on the wall enigmatically.
Fractionally too long, with a little bit of a slow start, it is one of the few biographies I've listened to that I feel I would return to refresh myself with in the future.
I listened to the audio book and it was quite engaging but suffered from repetitive timelines. This can be a challenge in audiobook biographies where several chapters cover the same or overlapping time periods because they are focusing on different things (painting skills, travel, patrons for instance) and I find it harder to keep track of the relevant dates purely through listening. This then leads to things being mentioned and returned too and rather than weaving together a complex pattern it messes up the timeline ;). I guess I want my audiobook biographies to be linear....
The audiobook also comes with a nice PDF of accompanying illustrations, drawings etc, which definitely enhance the understanding of Walter's points, although I found it interesting to not look at them when instructed but to review later en-masse.
That's it, gotta go, the soup is getting cold.
Fractionally too long, with a little bit of a slow start, it is one of the few biographies I've listened to that I feel I would return to refresh myself with in the future.
I listened to the audio book and it was quite engaging but suffered from repetitive timelines. This can be a challenge in audiobook biographies where several chapters cover the same or overlapping time periods because they are focusing on different things (painting skills, travel, patrons for instance) and I find it harder to keep track of the relevant dates purely through listening. This then leads to things being mentioned and returned too and rather than weaving together a complex pattern it messes up the timeline ;). I guess I want my audiobook biographies to be linear....
The audiobook also comes with a nice PDF of accompanying illustrations, drawings etc, which definitely enhance the understanding of Walter's points, although I found it interesting to not look at them when instructed but to review later en-masse.
That's it, gotta go, the soup is getting cold.
I’m astonished by the similarities between Leonardo’s genius and my own. Like looking into a mirror.
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Yeah. Right. :P
Fun book. I was especially interested in the time he spent the with the Borgias.
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Yeah. Right. :P
Fun book. I was especially interested in the time he spent the with the Borgias.
informative
reflective
slow-paced