Leonardo. Nella mente di un genio

A dully-written disappointment. It gives a decent enough overview of the various aspects of Leonardo's life, but the author is too busy making scholarly points to remember that this is supposed to be a biography. The level of analytical distance often felt like Leonardo the concept was being discuss Leggi tutto

Leonardo by Martin Kemp was a great dive into various aspects of Da Vinci's work - with less erudition than Leonardo Da Vinci and far more relevance than Leonardo’s Paradox: Word and Image in the Making of Renaissance Culture . It is highly readable and has many fascinating insights. I get the impres Leggi tutto

continuing through the Renaissance, I studied Leonardo next, after Brunellschi.

Very dry. I would've appreciated if Kemp had tried to spice it up a bit more.

Finished this awhile ago. Great book.

So dry, my eyes dissolved into sand and dust and feathered out of my nodding skull.

A great insight into a great man, his dreams, great works, genius (and avoiding patrons who wanted to know where the pictures were that they paid for 😀). Recommended reading.