El aclamado autor de los best sellers Steve Jobs y Einstein nos vuelve a cautivar con la vida del genio m嫳 creativo de la historia en esta fascinante biograf燰. Bas嫕dose en los miles de p墔inas de los cuadernos manuscritos de Leonardo y nuevos descubrimientos sobre su vida y su obra, Walter Isaacson teje una narraci鏮 que conecta el arte de Da Vinci con sus investigaciones cient璗icas, y nos muestra c鏔o el genio del hombre m嫳 visionario de la historia naci?de habilidades que todos poseemos y podemos estimular, tales como la curiosidad incansable, la observaci鏮 cuidadosa y la imaginaci鏮 juguetona. Su creatividad, como la de todo gran innovador, result?de la intersecci鏮 entre la tecnolog燰 y las humanidades. Despellej?y estudi?el rostro de numerosos cad嫛eres, dibuj?los mculos que configuran el movimiento de los labios y pint?la sonrisa m嫳 enigm嫢ica de la historia, la de la Mona Lisa. Explor?las leyes de la 鏕tica, demostr?como la luz incid燰 en la c鏎nea y logr?producir esa ilusi鏮 de profundidad en la 犋tima cena.
La habilidad de Leonardo da Vinci para combinar arte y ciencia -esplendorosamente representada en el Hombre de Vitruvio- contin siendo la regla de oro de la innovaci鏮. La apasionante vida de este gran hombre debe recordarnos la importancia de inculcar el conocimiento, pero sobre todo la voluntad contagiosa de cuestionarlo: ser imaginativos y pensar de manera diferente.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life" (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson "deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo" (
San Francisco Chronicle) in 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. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in
The Last Supper. 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.
In the "luminous" (
Daily Beast)
Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how 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 to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci "comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson's ambitious new biography...a vigorous, insightful portrait" (
The Washington Post).
