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kirsten0929 's review for:
Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
[2017] Got this as a gift a couple of years ago and I’ve been wanting to get to it ever since, and now I’m so glad I did. Not one to read all at once, but a little bit each day over the last month or so was perfect for me. I was pretty sure Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa but that was about all I knew going in. Now I know he was a creative and intellectual genius. It was so well written, I stayed interested the entire way through. Isaacson does a great job balancing Leo's personal life story with the incredible scope of his work, from his paintings to his military engineering to his breakthroughs in anatomy and study of nature and so much more. This could easily have been a boring text book, bogged down with minutiae, but Isaacson kept it clear, straightforward, and with just the right level of detail - infinitely readable. May pick up his book on Edison next.