Davinci biography book
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Books about Leonardo da Vinci: my favorite ones
Leonardo da Vinci is an inspiration for people all over the world since years. So many books were written about him, and many others were made publishing his notes, drawings and paintings. I am often asked what are my favorite or the best books about Leonardo da Vinci and which ones I would recommend. So I have put together the best titles about him that you can find around in English language.
Books about Leonardo da Vinci
I picked some biographies, some art and photo books and a couple of children’s books.
You can buy them on Amazon by clicking on the links in this post. Or ask them to your local bookshop!
Biographies about Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci &#; by Walter Isaacson
From the bestselling author and biographer Walter Isaacson, this book is an intimate and historically accurate portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. His childhood, family, passions and troubles come alive from the pages of Leonardo da Vinci b
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Leonardo da Vinci
"As always, [Isaacson] writes with a strongly synthesizing intelligence across a tremendous range; the result is a valuable introduction to a complex subject. . . . Beneath its diligent research, the book is a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it. . . . Most important, Isaacson tells a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life."
—The New Yorker
“To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time and in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbinding writer. And what a wealth of lessons there are to be learned in these pages."
—David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wright Brothers and
“I’ve read a lot about Leonardo over the years, but I had never found one book that satisfactorily covered all the different fa
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Leonardo Da Vinci is so big of a myth and legend that even though inom knew close to ingenting about him in my early school years, inom still knew he was the greatest painter/artist of all time. When discussions about geniuses of the present and past popped up his name was always present alongside other greats like Einstein.
When we look back on the man we can always see him gazing in the future, a man ahead of his time who might just have invented a flying machine in 15th Century Italy.
Conspiracy theories are also attached to his life fairly easily. It’s because of the enigmatic life he lead, the sparse documentation he did of his personal life, and his association with the wise and mighty of his time.
His association with the Illuminati, the secret world order that is said to run our world in actuality first appeared popularly in the book the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and next in a masterpiece game inom played, the Assassins Creed 2, in which Leonardo is shown as a member of the Assassi