The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leonardo da Vinci
- First Published: 1651
- Type of Work: Journals and notes
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: Love or romance, Art or artists, Science or scientists, Friendship, Genius, Painting or painters, Renaissance
Critical Evaluation:
One need only look at one of Leonardo’s paintings to realize that he was a man of great genius, but the vast range of that genius is not fully appreciated until one has read his notebooks. Very little is revealed there about the man as a person, but very much about his genius. It is not so much the fact that the notebooks are not a diary as it is that the external facts of life, love, friendship, and the like, are unimportant when placed beside the life of the mind. The notebooks are a record of Leonardo’s love affair with his own mind and with...
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