Leonardo Da Vinci (Spanish), Paperback

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Author: Walter Isaacson

El aclamado autor de los best sellers Steve Jobs y Einstein nos vuelve a cautivar con la vida del genio m s creativo de la historia en esta fascinante biograf a.

Bas ndose en las miles de p ginas de los cuadernos manuscritos de Leonardo y nuevos descubrimientos sobre su vida y su obra, Walter Isaacson teje una narraci n que conecta el arte de Da Vinci con sus investigaciones cient ficas, y nos muestra c mo el genio del hombre m s visionario de la historia nacide habilidades que todos poseemos y podemos estimular, tales como la curiosidad incansable, la observaci n cuidadosa y la imaginaci n juguetona. Su creatividad, como la de todo gran innovador, resultde la intersecci n entre la tecnolog a y las humanidades. Despellejy estudiel rostro de numerosos cad veres, dibujlos m sculos que configuran el movimiento de los labios y pintla sonrisa m s enigm tica de la historia, la de la Mona Lisa. Explorlas leyes de laptica, demostrcomo la luz incid a en la c rnea y logrproducir esa ilusi n de profundidad en laltima cena.

La habilidad de Leonardo da Vinci para combinar arte y ciencia -esplendorosamente representada en elHombre de Vitruvio- contin a siendo la regla de oro de la innovaci n. 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.

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The #1 New York Times bestseller

"A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it." --The New Yorker

"Vigorous, insightful." --The Washington Post

"A masterpiece." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Luminous." --The Daily Beast

He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us?

The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves 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. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. 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.

His creativity, like that of other great innovators, came from having wide-ranging passions. He peeled flesh off the faces of cadavers, drew the muscles that move the lips, and then painted history's most memorable smile. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. Isaacson also describes how Leonardo's lifelong enthusiasm for staging theatrical productions informed his paintings and inventions.

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 of instilling, both in ourselves and our children, not just received knowledge but a willingness to question it--to be imaginative and, like talented misfits and rebels in any era, to think different.