{"product_id":"leonardo-da-vinci-by-walter-isaacson","title":"Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNow a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe #1\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) in 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe produced the two most famous paintings in history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Last Supper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMona Lisa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Last Supper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVitruvian Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, made him history’s most creative genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the “luminous” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Beast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeonardo da Vinci\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Isaacson describes how 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 to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Read Room","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59552893796638,"sku":null,"price":620.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":59552893829406,"sku":null,"price":750.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":59552893862174,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1076\/7515\/6766\/files\/91Ey0_6N-LL._SL1500.jpg?v=1783274009","url":"https:\/\/www.readroombd.com\/products\/leonardo-da-vinci-by-walter-isaacson","provider":"Read Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}