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Leonardo da Vinci: A Life

Name: Leonardo da Vinci: A Life
Rating: 3 (7 reviews)

Sherwin NulandJanuary 4, 2005

Penguin

The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) have proved endlessly fascinating for generations. In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo’s insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject’s art, relationships, and scientific studies—as well as in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known in the twentieth century. Scholarly and passionate, Nuland’s Leonardo da Vinci takes us deep into the first truly modern, empirical mind, one that was centuries ahead of its time.

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About the author

Sherwin Nuland, M.D., is the author of bestselling nonfiction titles including How We Die, for which he won the National Book Award. He is clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history and bioethics.

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Penguin

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Published on

Jan 4, 2005

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Pages

176

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ISBN

9781440679278

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Features

Flowing text

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Language

English

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Genres

Art / Individual Artists / General

Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers

History / Europe / Italy

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