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Sunday, December 17, 2017

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography by Walter Isaacson review – unparalleled creative genius

A 19th-century engraving of Leonardo.
 A 19th-century engraving of Leonardo. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
In 1501, desperate for Leonardo to paint her portrait, the immensely rich Isabella d’Este employed a friar to act as go-between. The friar met Leonardo in Florence but found his lifestyle “irregular and uncertain” and couldn’t pin him down. “Mathematical experiments have absorbed his thoughts so entirely that he cannot bear the sight of a paintbrush,” Isabella was told. With promises he’d get round to it eventually, Leonardo kept her dangling for another three years. Pushy to the end, she changed tack and asked him for a painting of Jesus instead. Even then, he didn’t come up with the goods./.../

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