Leonardo da Vinci

by Walter Isaacson

Introduction

That followed Leonardo’s injunction to begin any investigation by going to the source: he who can go to the fountain does not go to the water jar.

Themes

• Iteration and going deeper. The revisiting if the painting’s neck twenty years after the initial painting to correctly render the two sternocleidomastoid muscles after human dissection in 1510.
• Beginning from foundations. First you must paint the skeleton, then move outward.
• Analogic thinking: a way to express the unity of nature