Da Vinci's Ghost : Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image (Paperback)

from JGolomb

The drawing is well known, if not universally recognized (and I mean universal in the literal sense). Leonardo DaVinci's print of the human male figure, arms and legs outstretched, touching both a square and a circle drawn within the square, can be found on t-shirts and mousepads, corporate logos...

from tuckerresearch

I loved Lester's first work, and in this he stretches way back to antiquity again to talk about an image at the end of the Renaissance. The Vitruvian Man is a nifty image, and it's explanation here is interesting and thought-provoking. However, as good as it was, I often found Lester repeating hi...

from Dorritt

A whole book about a single drawing - albeit a drawing so pervasive that it practically defined the word "meme" decades before the internet was a gleam in some nerd's eye? I was intrigued enough to pick up the audiobook version of this work, and am so glad I did. You know the drawing I'm talking ...

from Carmenere

I found the audio version of this book to be an incredibly concise work of Italian Renaissance culture. Certainly a large portion of this book is devoted to Leonardo Da Vinci but Lester also touches upon his peers whether they are in art, architecture, philosophy or religion. There really is no q...

from GlennBell

The author conducted research on the topic and then chose to theorize about what happened in detail and theorize what Leonardo felt. The information varies from somewhat interesting to truly trivial and boring. It would have been better to have presented the facts and let the reader make inferenc...