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Leonardo Da Vinci

by Sherwin Nuland
Scott Brick
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In Leonardo Da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships, and scientific studies. He detects the siren voice that so often lured the great artist into the arms of science—Leonardo's fascination with anatomy, first as the basis for his paintings and then as the crucial component in his aim to systematize all knowledge of nature. Scholarly and passionate, Nuland's Leonardo Da Vinci takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time.
"Nuland's ability to distill one of the greatest minds ever into its pure essence is truly awe-inspiring."—Time

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  • Release date

    February 19, 2008

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      • ISBN: 9781415951668
      • File size: 131244 KB
      • Duration: 04:33:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      As opposed to the traditional chronological biography, this loosely organized treatise examines both what is and what is not known about the great master. Scott Brick's comfortable voice sounds genuinely interested as it guides us though the evidence from which we must surmise how the gifted thinker solved nature's riddles and created monumental art. The narration becomes noticeably tumescent when describing Da Vinci's dissections of penile blood supply. Unfortunately, Brick's tendency to vary his voice from loud to very soft sometimes results in the loss of important words. And Nuland's antiquated Freudian ideas about homosexuality should have died with the great Viennese shrink. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

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