A review by hardhatscott
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

5.0

Isaacson obviously loves Leonardo. The book is reverential and effusive. In some sense t reads like the catalogue for an exhibition of all of Leonardo's works, with detailed descriptions of each work and what to look for. Did you know, for example, that one of the Mona Lisa's pupils is slightly smaller than the other? Leonardo's amazing talents ranged from theater production and painting to scientific research and anatomy illustration (as well as dissection). It is a shame that he never published his findings as many of his discoveries weren't rediscovered for hundreds of years. He was very much ahead of his time. Much of the book is culled from Leonardo's notebooks, thousands of pages of them written in "mirror writing." It is an astonishing legacy from an amazing genius.