Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History at Tulane, has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Leonardo da Vinci; Steve Jobs; Einstein: His Life and Universe; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography. He is also the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.

出版者:Simon & Schuster

作者:Walter Isaacson

页数:624

出版时间:2017-10-17

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781501139154

图书标签:传记达芬奇人物传记Walter_Isaacson英文原版Biography艺术历史

The #1 New York Times bestseller

“A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.” —The New Yorker

“Vigorous, insightful.” —The Washington Post

“A masterpiece.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Luminous.” —The Daily Beast

He was history’s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us?

The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy.

He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius.

His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history’s most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo’s lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions.

Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it—to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.

读后感

学画者恐怕都听过这个故事：达·芬奇少年时拜师学画，老师要他先画鸡蛋，这对我们的天才来说太单调了。可他理解了老师的苦心，潜心揣摩了几年鸡蛋画法，自此画技如神。这个故事有几分可信呢？至少从达·芬奇日后朝三暮四“烂尾王”的举动，很难想象他曾经过此等枯燥的训练。不...  

学画者恐怕都听过这个故事：达·芬奇少年时拜师学画，老师要他先画鸡蛋，这对我们的天才来说太单调了。可他理解了老师的苦心，潜心揣摩了几年鸡蛋画法，自此画技如神。这个故事有几分可信呢？至少从达·芬奇日后朝三暮四“烂尾王”的举动，很难想象他曾经过此等枯燥的训练。不...  

真的不愧是大师他是天才更是凡人，虽然身处时代不同依旧能从文字中感受到这位大师的一生，做任何事都做到极致，是艺术家更是科学家，在达芬奇身上有太多的技能。他有善于发现的眼睛他的世界是丰富多彩，并且能付诸实践做到精益求精，高度的投入专注又很坚持对未知充满好奇保持...  

用户评价

看得特别想练习画画，什么都不是天生的，都是练出来的

这本书详细介绍了Da Vinci的作品，有很多详尽的作品描述，而且基本上就是按照之前富兰克林传的套路，事无巨细，一点一点把Da Vinci的生平给描述了一遍，让我印象比较深的就是，Da Vinci这个人，真的是太有好奇心了，永远保持着对于未知事物的强烈好奇心，不仅仅是为了要做到什么才去学什么，而是就是单纯保持着好奇，任何知识都是有用的，这是他能在绘画，建筑，工程学等各个方面取得如此伟大成就的原因。当然了，他的拖延症也是相当一流，好多东西都没真正意义上做完。虽然这并不影响他的伟大，但是如果他真的能把他之前的欠债都完成， 那世界上就又多了一批珍宝。

Audiobook听完。It's a fascinating book. 但还是只能打四颗星，总有点遗憾，就像达芬奇的拖延症一样。

Genius = Never Ending Curiosity + Creativity + Analytics The author took on many interesting perspectives to describe a well known intellect. Definitely worth reading.

达芬奇的好奇心