Projekt Budujemy Books

Why did Leonardo Da Vinci go away such a lot of of his significant works uncompleted? Why did this resolute pacifist construct battle machines for the infamous Borgias? Why did he hold the Mona Lisa with him all over he went for many years, but by no means relatively end it? Why did he write backwards, and was once he relatively at warfare with Michelangelo? And was once he homosexual?
 
In a ebook not like something ever written concerning the Renaissance genius, Mike Lankford explodes each cliché approximately Da Vinci after which reconstructs him according to a wealthy trove of accessible evidence—bringing to lifestyles for the trendy reader the fellow who has been studied through students for hundreds of years, but has remained as mysterious as ever.   
 
looking to envision Da Vinci with out the obscuring residue of ancient varnish, the points of interest, sounds, smells, and think of Renaissance Italy—usually lacking in different biographies—are all the following, transporting readers again to an international of struggle and plague and court docket intrigue, of viciously aggressive recognized artists, of murderous tyrants with beautiful tastes in paintings ….
 
Lankford brilliantly captures Da Vinci's existence because the compelling and hazardous event it sort of feels to have truly been—fleeing from one sanctuary to the following, by some means surviving in battle zones beside his good friend Machiavelli, suffering to make paintings his means or no manner in any respect ... and sometimes paying dearly for these decisions.
 
it's a exciting and soaking up trip into the lifetime of a ferociously committed loner, whose art in a single means or one other represents his noble uprising, supplying thought that's timeless.

From the Hardcover edition.