Leonardo da Vinci (CD-Audio)

from Meredy

Overall impression: It isn't magnificent, but it's solid and admirable enough. Lots of editorial slips. Also a fair amount of repetition. I wonder how much of the author's expertise is borrowed. Beautiful printing job. Really nice paper, enough so that I couldn't bring myself to mark errors or ma...

from JosephKing6602

Wonderful book with a great story to tell! The illustrations were well done and truly worth the high(er)-cost of this book. Leonardo's life story and personal history were captivating, and the author presented just the right amount of detail. The explanations were appropriate for both the art exp...

from stevetempo

An extraordinary celebration of a most extraordinary person Walter Issacson unpacks the life of Leonardo in brilliant detail and then collects those details together and gives you multiply views of his life and contributions. After reading this wonderful work, I feel like I've know Leonardo. It ...

from tuckerresearch

Walter Isaacson likes innovators who are different and all-encompassing in their pursuits, thus his bios of Steve Jobs and Ben Franklin. Thus his biography of Leonardo here. It does everything a biography of Leonardo should and could do, discuss his life (including his personal life), his major w...

from infjsarah

I listened to this on audio which might seem strange for a book where the illustrations matter but it actually works well. I don't know that I would have gotten through the detail when reading it but on audio it didn't matter so much. I did slightly speed up the narration as I found it a bit slow...