The genius of Leonardo da Vinci

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  • Artist Leonardo da Vinci produced two of the most famous paintings in history, "The Last Supper" and the "Mona Lisa." But he was also passionate about medical discoveries and military inventions, some of which were centuries ahead of their time. Walter Isaacson, author of bestselling biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, has written a new book about da Vinci, and he talks with Dr. Jon LaPook about why this Renaissance Man's mind and curiosity were so extraordinary.
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  • @bringmearavencroft
    @bringmearavencroft 4 ปีที่แล้ว +817

    Leonardo had the greatest gift a man can have/use: curiosity. He wanted to know everything, and anything that came to his mind.

    • @greenwxy344
      @greenwxy344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Fajitahmed nah it’s og😍😢

    • @imanifleming5138
      @imanifleming5138 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yall boring people

    • @cecelianiomu4547
      @cecelianiomu4547 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mount Mona Lisa has no eyebrows like me and I am just like giving G I want to know everything that's why they call me Curious George

    • @brianmatzen9617
      @brianmatzen9617 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Augusto Helmer art is subjective and he was highly advanced in any study and job he had whether it’s military art or others and he had way more paintings than we have today only a few survived

    • @mattwaters9008
      @mattwaters9008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Augusto Helmer mediocre artist? his teacher was a renowned artist who retired after leonardo surpassed him to heights his teacher couldnt even fatham reaching.

  • @mattiamechtatel
    @mattiamechtatel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1511

    In my opinion, one of the most remarkable things Leonardo did it was that picture of a bicycle. Do you understand? Leonardo drew a bicycle almost half millennium before it was invented.

    • @onlythewise1
      @onlythewise1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      many inventions was lost to neglect or nobody wanted it , or they was to dumb to know much

    • @GarageSpaceship
      @GarageSpaceship 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Leonardo is a fictitious character. That's why "he" depicted futuristic things, because his existence was forged in the last 300 years. That's why he didn't sign a single damn painting. He never existed except in stories that you idiots parrot. Show me the primary sources to prove he existed.

    • @proudlakerfan
      @proudlakerfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +345

      @@GarageSpaceship did you forget to take your meds again?

    • @adamrodda5024
      @adamrodda5024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Da Vinci didn’t invent the bicycle...

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Fibo,
      It is absolute nonsense.
      Let me explain.
      There is a Leonardo codex (collection of pages) that belongs to an Italian monastery. This had been taken out of storage and was being examined for the purpose of study and/or restoration. It was left in a room where various members of the monastery staff had access to it.
      The codex went missing for a couple of days.
      One o the unusual things about it was that two pages were stcuck together.
      When these were prised apart, four drawings were found beteen the pages.
      These drawings are extremely amateurish and scratchy.
      They are
      1. A crudely drawn face of a boy in a hat.
      2. A penis with legs, labelled with the name of one of Leonardo's pupils.
      3. Another that I can't remember- I think it is just a few straight lines.
      4. A very very badly drawn bicycle.
      The bicycle makes use of two ink circles which are part of a diagram drawn on the other side of the page.
      How can we be sure Leonardo didn't draw it?
      It is mechanically SERIOUSLY wrong. i.e. the pedals go down below the wheels, so if it was made, they would scrape the ground.
      This is not the sort of error that a person DESIGNING a bike could possibly make.
      But it IS the sort of error that a person who KNEW about bicycles, and was bad at drawing, could make.
      The four drawings are all by the same hand, and they are all very poor drawings. Leonardo, even when he did just a little sketch, drew very competently.
      There is a big difference between a quick sketch by a good artist and a drawing by someone who draws badly.
      Leonardo did not design the bicycle.
      BUT he DID design the linked chain and sprogged wheel that is essential to the bicycle mechanism. This has other applications, and was a great invention.

  • @drinny26
    @drinny26 4 ปีที่แล้ว +255

    I would love to travel back in time and observe DaVinci.

    • @greenwxy344
      @greenwxy344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Not observe, interact

    • @jackcoyle7484
      @jackcoyle7484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Then he would observe you, steal your time technology,clone you as him, leave you behind

    • @mayapingho3809
      @mayapingho3809 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was deeply interesting I wish that too

    • @enzhouzutzut6525
      @enzhouzutzut6525 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      that's creepy

    • @wm4893
      @wm4893 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      For that, you need negative energy to make time travel possible.

  • @sthakur164
    @sthakur164 4 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    He was an enlightened being, truly conscious to his surroundings.

  • @johnelvinbalazon9593
    @johnelvinbalazon9593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    No mention of his great friendship with the legendary figure Ezio Auditore?

    • @calvino5117
      @calvino5117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yolo Yolt In Assassin’s Creed yea

    • @octobergaming5767
      @octobergaming5767 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@calvino5117 shhhhhh.......

  • @LightofVenus5
    @LightofVenus5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I took my mother to Paris last year to see the Mona Lisa in person. Da Vinci was an otherworldly being, truly enlightened. What an incredible mind!

  • @tinalouiseking
    @tinalouiseking 4 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    OMG! I can't believe I'm just noticing that Mona Lisa has a veil on her head. All this time

    • @omgitsjoetime
      @omgitsjoetime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Louise K come on how often do you look at the Mona Lisa

  • @TheArtofFugue
    @TheArtofFugue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    if you read his codex you’ll realise he was the smartest person ever. drawings that were 500 years ahead of its time, recreated in the 20-21 century after its discovery worked perfectly. parachutes, submarines, underwater suits to breath while underwater (scuba suits), drawings of helicopters, early (machine guns), the basis of human anatomy, and so much more. he was extremely ahead of his time.

    • @josephcoolest1839
      @josephcoolest1839 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mazolab the drawing of the parachute did which is what he is referring to.

    • @josephcoolest1839
      @josephcoolest1839 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@mazolab oh yeah I would still say the majority worked with the exception of the airplane for example his design of the submarine, his mechanical knight, and his tank all have worked. And he made the mechanical night himself, which is basically as close as you could have come to robotics at the time.

    • @josephcoolest1839
      @josephcoolest1839 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mazolab that video is wrong people made it unmodified and there were primitive submarines in the 1500s

    • @josephcoolest1839
      @josephcoolest1839 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mazolab the tank may never work in battle but it functioned and yes his design for the submarine worked without modification

    • @josephcoolest1839
      @josephcoolest1839 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mazolab links can not send in TH-cam comments sections.

  • @jplaw2508
    @jplaw2508 6 ปีที่แล้ว +338

    Everyday look up, and look down. Notice the sky/light/birds and notice the ground/rocks/plants. Everyday.

    • @11pratical96
      @11pratical96 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Could you explain further please?

    • @jplaw2508
      @jplaw2508 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I read somewhere, possibly in the book, "How to Think Like DaVinci" or something close, that he did this everyday; looked up and looked down. I get it done about 5 days out of 7 simply out of laziness. It's cool, though. Namaste

    • @patrickisatreestump7817
      @patrickisatreestump7817 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      jp law ok

    • @ryanduray1
      @ryanduray1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      jp law That's definitely good advice. If you stop to look around, the natural beauty within this planet is amazing. We're often too preoccupied to truly appreciate life.

    • @1futur334
      @1futur334 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes . Look around take a good look at everything around you for a quick moment.

  • @eilenekellogg7017
    @eilenekellogg7017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    He was the greatest, my favorite artist and inventor. To bad he didn't know how famous his work is!

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Leonardo DID know how famous his work was.
      When you draw a picture- a large picture four feet across, as a plan for a painting of the Virgin and Christ Child, and before the drawing is even finished, people are flocking to see it night and day, as if it was a side show, then you know that your work is famous.
      When the King of France comes to visit the Pope, and you are called in and the King says, Leonardo I want you to come back to France and live in a beautiful Château of your own and just live out your life in comfort, then you know that you have really made it as an artist.

  • @MonaLisa-fg9en
    @MonaLisa-fg9en 6 ปีที่แล้ว +866

    That's my PAPII!!! MUAH

  • @MandyJMaddison
    @MandyJMaddison 5 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    To say that Leonardo died "a poor man" Is hardly true.
    Leonardo died with all the material comforts that he could possibly want, including a beautiful chateau, and the patronage of the king of France.
    The painting f Leonardo's death shown in this video, shows king Francis cradling Leonardo's head as he died.
    I will add here that some recent research indicated that Francis made a proclamation, several days distant, on the day of his death, and therefore ould not have been present, as tradition claims. A little further research indicated that the proclamation was actually delivered by one of the Kings nobles, and in fact Francis may well have been present after all.
    Two interesting facts about Leonardo's will-
    He left his housekeeper a fine black cloak with a fur collar. This meant that she could go in his funeral procession as one of his chief mourners, with her humble clothes disguised by a cloak as fine as any woman of the town.
    He left instructions that sixty old men of the town should follow his bier as mourners. THis meant that each man would receive a good meal and wine as part of the wake.
    He left his notebooks to his pupil and assistant Count Francesco Melzi, who began to prepare his works for publication.
    He left money and land, and the Mona Lisa to his scoundrelous pupil known as Salai. Salai didn't live long as he was killed in a duel.

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you so much for these colorful images. 🙋

    • @NOTTHASAME
      @NOTTHASAME 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We all will died as we came , with nothing , poor and no money !
      Money is the most evil things ever created on this earth.

    • @NOTTHASAME
      @NOTTHASAME 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Steve Jobs died a poor man , all the money in this world couldn't save him nor could he take it with him for good standings.

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      rabeks,
      Do you mean that he didn't have a Million Scudi in the the Medici Bank?
      Or do you mean that he died, just as any other man dies?
      Leonardo lived out his last years in great comfort even though the mobility in his hands was limited and he wasn't painting much. He lived in a chateau, attended by servants and with the King of France as his friend..

    • @Itzsfo0
      @Itzsfo0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@NOTTHASAME money is the not the root of all evil, its the want of money the desire sorry but while I'm on earth I want money to survive to pay my Bill's and have better health care better entertainment. Rather have money then not have it, I'll worry about my death and afterlife when it happens
      Also Steve jobs had billions and if he hadn't had that money he would have died even sooner
      You can be poor and unhappy
      Or You can be rich and unhappy
      I'd rather be comfortable an if you think money is evil then you are a brainwashed idiot
      The food you eat, health you have, economy that survives, the air you breathe the electricity you have, the water and heat is all dependent on money, money isnt everything but it's important even those monks in Tibet (what they don't tell you is) even they need money. Go ahead be stupid, try living without it. Have fun starving
      Lol look at Bill Gates 70 years old billionaire, healthy, donates tons of money, gives back to people, and helps society
      Money is not the root of all evil, the WANT/Desire of money (and what people do to get it...i.e crime, violence, thievery, etc) that's where the evil is.
      Only brainwashed religious fanatics would say money is evil. Money is just physical currency nothing more, humans create the sin..money is just coins and paper.
      As for Steve jobs he had a disease and he was going to die 1 way or another money had nothing to do with it. But if he was poor, and had nothing...he would had died even younger, no one lives forever but while your here why NOT enjoy your life, and have enough $ to be comfortable. Worry about the afterlife when it comes

  • @strattuner
    @strattuner 5 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    it would be interesting to introduce LEONARDO TO TESLA,oh the conversations

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm one of those nuts who believe they they talk regularly. As in now.

    • @lyndsieannette957
      @lyndsieannette957 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mortalclown3812 😍😍

    • @swaytiegooch4444
      @swaytiegooch4444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And Einstein

    • @omgitsjoetime
      @omgitsjoetime 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      swaytie gooch Tesla actually tried to put down Einstein’s work and discredit him. Maybe if he had done that to Edison instead he would have gotten more out of his own work

    • @ashikdennis9202
      @ashikdennis9202 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I would die to listen to their conversations

  • @bigpawpamarcos
    @bigpawpamarcos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    This dude was limited by the knowledge that was around back then , imagine the thoughts he would have if he knew everything we did ??

    • @yankee2666
      @yankee2666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Your comment is completely erroneous.

    • @Shvetsario
      @Shvetsario 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yank ee
      How is it wrong? Today we have the internet, you can access almost any information on different subjects. There wasn’t such a thing back then

    • @user-js1eg6vp7w
      @user-js1eg6vp7w 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Wasting their time on TH-cam ;)

    • @yankee2666
      @yankee2666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Referring to DaVinci as 'This dude' turns my stomach, and makes you look like a fool.

    • @omgitsjoetime
      @omgitsjoetime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yank ee I only use “this dude “ when I’m trying to be insulting and not use their true name

  • @peepeepoopoo1399
    @peepeepoopoo1399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I think he’s the only person to whom the saying “jack of all trades, master of none” doesn’t apply. Great inventor, artist, handsome, scientist, etc. An inspiration for men to long for something greater, even half a century after his time.

  • @jacquelineramphal1911
    @jacquelineramphal1911 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    He was a man before his time! Truly a thinker and a doer! 😎🌎❤️

    • @omgitsjoetime
      @omgitsjoetime 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jacqueline Ramphal ya a “doer” of men... he could really pack up that Florence mans fudge

  • @nichols6778
    @nichols6778 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I read tons of books about Leonardo's life and it's the first time I've been told he died as a poor man.
    He had his own castle (Le Clos Lucé) offered by François 1er since years. The King was fascinated by him and offered him and his apprentice whatever they wanted (in exchange of Leonardo's simple presence, conversations, knowledge of fireworks for the court's parties etc...) even his paintings were inherited for his apprentice/lover and the King respected that and bought some after.
    Informations founded in every biography I read by Art Historians who spent their life being loyal with the facts (Vasari, Clark, Zöllner, teachers...)
    Unfortunately we can't trust a quick summary of a lifetime meant for a 10mn program between 20ads.
    BOOKS
    (sorry if bad english, not english speaker so I don't know if I did any mistakes, I tried not to)

    • @margarethsmith9386
      @margarethsmith9386 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nichols what books have you read? I am interested in reading them. Just to widen my knowledge about him.

    • @aurockscastillo5460
      @aurockscastillo5460 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know ,some people are conflating van gogh with da Vinci ,he was the most famous man of his day.

    • @paulrosa6173
      @paulrosa6173 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm a "gay" man (sometimes I('m even happy about that) too but I think people today make a mistake thinking homosexually automatically means engaging in "buggery". That isn't necessarily the case. Freud wrote a portrait of Leonardo and he seriously doubted Leonardo was very sexually active most of his life. The upper classes had some privileges that weren't common to most but that didn't mean it was clear sailing. Those at the top had very little personal privacy. Almost no one, almost up to the present day had much personal privacy. It would have been very hard for Leonardo to do anything notorious. Freud didn't consider homosexuality a disease or "abomination". He called Leonardo an "ideal' homosexual. The young man may not have been his lover but a surrogate son a companion and helper. The people of his era tended to live with intense discipline, either from within or imposed on them, and would probably have accepted man on man love as long as it remained within scriptural definitions of proper practice. I tend to think that in a time of high mortality rates for all ages, making babies. especially dynastic heirs, was seen as an almost absolute duty.
      We're living in a time when it is almost a situation where having a physical body is becoming a burden. in as much as most of the grunt work of life has been replaced with machinery and even so much of the labor of thought is being supplanted by AI, raising children may be something only those with the where-with-all may actually engage in it? It might even be the case that the proportion of those how actually get to pass on their genes isn't much different than it was historically? .
      BTW - I didn't even notice you wrote English as a second language. My Grandmother In Waterbury Ct. used to carry on a lifelong correspondence with a French woman my Grandfather had met in WWI and neither of them could speak the other's language. My Grandmother wrote English but Germaine used a dictionary. My Grandmother couldn't get more than a high school education but Germaine was many years younger and probably had the longer schooling. My Grandfather had the measles and was laid up for a time in a French hospital and met Germaine who was a teenager nursing helper.

    • @nichols6778
      @nichols6778 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@margarethsmith9386 My dear Margareth, sorry I just see your question now, 2years later 😅 I'll answer in case you're still interested and didn't read some books I'm going to mention...
      - Well I can talk to you about Kenneth Clark who wrote fascinating books, and one especially about da Vinci, with Martin Kemp.
      - Franz Zöllner is also quite dedicated to da Vinci, just chose the book you feel into:)
      - The History of Art (big book but so so interesting, you can even read it like it is a novel) by Ernst Gombrich.
      Apart from books you can learn a lot from magazines, there are so much very very well done, don't forget that.
      - Otherwise I will not end this answer without mentionning Giorgio Vasari : "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects", usually in 2volumes...
      ENTHRILLING
      Full of life and fun, very respectful for the artists he writes about. You can learn from the very veeeery early Italian Renaissance to the end of the XVIth century when he died (he was a friend of Michelangelo so you'll learn a lot of great stuff😃).
      Very easy to read just by the fact that it's one biography after another... like chapters but in this case you pick the ones you like...
      (at the end you'll probably read everything anyway hahha)
      And it's so well written... I'll give you a teaser here... (personnally I've read it in french and it was lovely so don't know how this translation would do but I'm sure the translator here had also the talent of keeping everything great)... WELL. Written in the mid-1550's, here are the first sentences of how Vasari presents us Master Leonardo...
      >
      Enjoy

    • @christineskirvin803
      @christineskirvin803 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@nichols6778 Thank you so much for your studies and sharing this information. You touched on some I was unaware of and I can never ever read enough about DaVinci.

  • @claudialima7714
    @claudialima7714 5 ปีที่แล้ว +281

    This brilliant man was not from this planet.

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Claudia Lima,
      Leonardo was very much of this planet. He observed t with great attention, and used his observations.

    • @NOU-iw3gb
      @NOU-iw3gb 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MandyJMaddison
      Hi

    • @Nostradamus953
      @Nostradamus953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MandyJMaddison u don't get it do u? LmO

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mr. Mythical,
      I am not entirely sure whether Claudia Lima was speaking figuratively or meaningfully.
      When one is dealing with flat-earthers, and the "Diana was murdered by the lizard people" it is hard to be sure.

    • @1337Jogi
      @1337Jogi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Truly a giant amongst men.

  • @johnjohnson3709
    @johnjohnson3709 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    As an artist myself I have learned to notice everything.

  • @mduboz2u941
    @mduboz2u941 5 ปีที่แล้ว +266

    They say, DiCaprio's name sake, instead of DaVinci.

    • @damoos3.
      @damoos3. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      thats grammatically and factually correct though.
      They meant Leonardo DiCaprios namesake which was Davinci

    • @TheMrMerudin
      @TheMrMerudin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Da Vinci" is NOT Leonardo's surname.

  • @Alfablue227
    @Alfablue227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So happy that I was still lucky enough to see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre so much closer than now, and yes, her eyes 'moved' as I walked from left to right and back. Brilliant piece of art. What a gift to humanity DaVinci was.

    • @josepcivil8090
      @josepcivil8090 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The woman represented in the famous painting at the Louvre is not Lisa del Giocondo as we are told. In fact, it is Princess Isabelle of Aragon and Sforza, the daughter of King Alfonso II of Aragon, a dynasty that came from Catalonia, as demonstrated by historian and Italian Renaissance specialist Maike Vogt-Luerssen.

  • @takchengsze4719
    @takchengsze4719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The famous art historian erwin panofsky wrote a book on leonardo's codex huygen. That is a very profound essay. Highly recommended. Wisdom worth more than millions. A lot of kings or bankers were forgotten but his last supper was admired for centuries. Art gives humanity a glimpse of heaven.

    • @donnabrasher3303
      @donnabrasher3303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The last line of your post is deeply profound and indeed art will be the ONLY heaven many ever see.

  • @goldenfantasy9251
    @goldenfantasy9251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    The smartest human to have ever lived I think he knows about magic too.

    • @goldenfantasy9251
      @goldenfantasy9251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Qui It doesn't now but in the past maybe.

    • @ghanabaaremeyawabas3074
      @ghanabaaremeyawabas3074 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Golden Fantasy Sure from his writtings, you could tell especially some of His quotes,well coded,seems to tell he had some form of contact with ....I think ''alchemy'' will be the best word and not magic.

    • @user-no9yc1wp4v
      @user-no9yc1wp4v 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      al jazari,avicena,al hazen...all of them

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Golden Fantasy,
      That is a total fantasy.
      Leonardo was a scientist who made and recorded observations.
      He wrote that alchemy was nonsense and a waste of time.
      He wrote thousands of pages, but NONE about spiritual matters or magic.

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      GHanaba,
      No. He wrote that alchemy was worthless and a waste of time.

  • @tyleravery1905
    @tyleravery1905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    If I'm honest with you, I think that the most extraordinary things about Leonardo da Vinci is that he drew and designed things that people these days wouldn't even think of drawing and things that were not even close to being invented for centuries! That circle thing with the roof looked like a helicopter! Not only that, but he designed a car!!! This was the 15th and 16th centuries to clarify; 1400 and 1500!

  • @maimayer9687
    @maimayer9687 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Leonardo's art gives me artgasms

  • @Ryder69girl
    @Ryder69girl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    At Folsom State Prison in California, there is a painting of The Last Supper that was painted 1938 on the inside of the chappel, on a wall by inmate 21692 Ralph Pecor. But he had to come up with his own paint which was difficult. So he imprivised with shoe polishes and other odd concoctions. Just to be kinda like leonardo he painted it with the faces switched out with those of guards and inmates. Check it out at (Folsom Prison 'Last Supper' Mural Featuring Inmates, Guards As Disciples) it is really cool.

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lincoln knight,
      thank you for drawing my attention to this.

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You rock for passing this on.

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pekor

  • @hjordistorfa
    @hjordistorfa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I have greatly admired and loved Leonardo Da Vinci all my life and the fact that there will be made a movie about his life staring Leonardo DiCaprio is to my something of a miracle.. and something to look forward to.. Thank you from my heart Walter Isaacson for this beautiful book and making this film possible.. I can't wait.. it's so exciting 💕✌😊💕🍃💜🍃💕

  • @biswajit4134
    @biswajit4134 6 ปีที่แล้ว +738

    yes he died as a poor man. This is what happens to great people.

    • @hectorcardenas2171
      @hectorcardenas2171 6 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      Bibs Photography
      Money wasn't a concern for him.

    • @Kevin14henrY
      @Kevin14henrY 6 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      However King of France visited him before he died. It's a great honour.

    • @goldenfantasy9251
      @goldenfantasy9251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      Knowledge is much more greater then money.

    • @Tx-do9fe
      @Tx-do9fe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Tell yourself the truth

    • @clickbait7322
      @clickbait7322 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@goldenfantasy9251 well said

  • @RHNGaming
    @RHNGaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Leonardo learned about the muscles of the human face in order to understand how they operate so he could draw the human face's emotions perfectly. It's that level of detail which made this guy so good

  • @ilcondottierocartografo6770
    @ilcondottierocartografo6770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These paintings, especially Mona Lisa, should've been kept in a museum about Leonardo in Florence.

  • @damienburriss9008
    @damienburriss9008 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Bruh imagine if Leonardo lived in this age. With internet...

  • @aprilyndirectories
    @aprilyndirectories 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Leonardo is the humblest person I've ever known...

    • @jamie8037
      @jamie8037 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Was he nice? Did he let you have a go on his glider?

    • @aprilyndirectories
      @aprilyndirectories 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@jamie8037 He is so nice.. Like I told you so humble... Nope he did not... We met in Heaven... That was when he painted the Last supper... I am a witness in spirit when he painted it. His spirit is in Heaven when he was being introduced to me by Jesus Christ.

  • @sarveshnanjee2828
    @sarveshnanjee2828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    He may have died poor but he lived a very rich life!

    • @yankee2666
      @yankee2666 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely. Who cares if you die poor?

    • @aurockscastillo5460
      @aurockscastillo5460 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Poor? More like the height of luxury and wealth ,he lived with the king of france.

  • @jrsx5826
    @jrsx5826 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing. Art detail is awesome.

  • @angeladallimore8079
    @angeladallimore8079 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sensational i get excited when i see art with so much detail. . Superb

  • @yehudahhachassid6191
    @yehudahhachassid6191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hallelujah ! Thank you for a fascinating video on the Great Master Leonardo Da Vinci ! It is a great joy and blessing to see his many works of genius and talent. May all beings be happy !

  • @catzenhouse
    @catzenhouse ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I urge anyone, whether interested in Leonardo or not, to read Isaacson's biography of Da Vinci. Such a rich and profound but highly engrossing, readable book. I saw "The Virgin of the Rocks" in the National Gallery in London years ago and wish I had Isaacson's insight to guide me on that visit.

  • @GerardoMartinez-vi4rg
    @GerardoMartinez-vi4rg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Leonardo baby🙏

  • @lewhit992
    @lewhit992 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The last part of this was profoundly tranquil

  • @rstubee1
    @rstubee1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The drawing at 4:04 is so wonderful to see the starting lines ignored and a chin about an inch higher, a great photo, Thanks.

  • @georgeovia
    @georgeovia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There’s the wonderful story of Da Vinci when he was an apprentice got asked to paint an angel on a Fresco while the master painted the rest, however, when the master came in and saw the angel he just snapped his brushes and walked away.

  • @SurajParajuli1
    @SurajParajuli1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Think like Da Vinci -- worth reading..

    • @rysmith9433
      @rysmith9433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Very profitable restaurant

    • @yankee2666
      @yankee2666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I've read it, and no, it isn't worth reading. DaVinci was an anomaly. A mind that can't be modeled.

    • @johaunallen8987
      @johaunallen8987 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yankee2666 so was Michael jackson

  • @laos85
    @laos85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Leonado is one of the smartest famous person ever. No other can compared to his greatness. Art and scientist blend well to one another.

  • @LMike2004
    @LMike2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Describe the tongue of the woodpecker." It curls up behind the brain of the bird to prevent choking. Incredible design.

  • @marie-nm9jo
    @marie-nm9jo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can relate to Leonardo’s creative mind. I have many equations and curiosities and ideas as well, but I am amazed how Leonardo actually goes out and builds these things. That is inspiration.

  • @saint6563
    @saint6563 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My favorite human ever!
    Got to get to the museum.
    Hope the movie is more inspirational than introspective.
    However, a Movie Star may want a more personality driven performance.

  • @adelaferreira4575
    @adelaferreira4575 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Leonardo Da Vinci ,the greatest brain that ever lived ,he had dreams way ahead of his time and left us drawings of his creative genius in every professional field ,what an incredible men !

  • @N3VURMYND
    @N3VURMYND 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    "Dicaprio's namesake was born out of wedlock in Florence in 1452." 🤣🤣🤣

    • @scrapy3211
      @scrapy3211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lol good catch, i noticed that one too.

    • @fashcionpachion2570
      @fashcionpachion2570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Scrolling down comment section just to see if anyone had noticed this part.. Totally hilarious and disrspectful of them at the same time

    • @VHSRKIVES
      @VHSRKIVES 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      wasn't a flub. He said DiCaprio's "namesake"

    • @piej08
      @piej08 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it has a point after looking up what namesakes mean.. 👍🏻

  • @christianlattimore3485
    @christianlattimore3485 6 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    More like a half a billion

  • @irishelk3
    @irishelk3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    When you're into someone like Leonardo Da Vinci its hard to appreciate a tiny canvas painted blue, talked up by pretentious people -- you must never let snobs take over art, its not for them.

    • @irishelk3
      @irishelk3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Cheetos Martini Well a certain amount of rich people aren't snobs and genuinely have good taste, but then there's the ones who just throw all these names around and its just hilarious to watch people talking about art when they haven't a clue how its done, especially if you yourself know how to draw and paint, and know the effort it takes.

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It happened with opera, darn it.

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Stephen Brown oops

  • @artist2739
    @artist2739 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this! Thank you

  • @ingridarlington5745
    @ingridarlington5745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My favorite painter/artist. I would have loved to have seen his tutorials.😏

  • @thommytwotoestimesthree847
    @thommytwotoestimesthree847 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    There is something quite mysterious about the Mona Lisa and when they did a bone structure comparison and facial feature comparison the results were no less than astounding.

  • @rhythmpanwar6174
    @rhythmpanwar6174 6 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    It sold for 450.3 million

  • @pedrozaragoza2253
    @pedrozaragoza2253 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Breathtaking.

  • @n.a3345
    @n.a3345 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    He was very detailed oriented! Something common with majority of artists.

  • @Happy_HIbiscus
    @Happy_HIbiscus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    dude, da vinci was a genius !

    • @yankee2666
      @yankee2666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Dude?" ...Get lost.

    • @FocusMrbjarke
      @FocusMrbjarke 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yankee2666 what’s wrong with saying “dude”? It’s pretty common.

  • @louislaw85
    @louislaw85 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    he was pretty much asexual actually.. not gay

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Um, being certain about someone's level of eros a half millennium ago is going to be tough to prove.

    • @charliechuckles5579
      @charliechuckles5579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      you sure? I heard he made love to his donkey

    • @Hitithardify
      @Hitithardify 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Charlie Chuckles Apparently he got arrested for sodomy on a guy during his life too.

    • @dougoverhoff7568
      @dougoverhoff7568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Who gives a crap!

    • @EmperorsNewWardrobe
      @EmperorsNewWardrobe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Louis Law, how did you come to that conclusion?

  • @Venom-jm8ws
    @Venom-jm8ws 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve never been so relaxed

  • @JMyepes
    @JMyepes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very interesting video. I like the way Walter Isaacson express his admiration for Leonardo da Vinci. Thanks to this channel to share this beautiful video.

    • @chriskovoor2217
      @chriskovoor2217 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please do watch this video if you like to know more about leonardo da vinci
      th-cam.com/video/GrBqT5SlEuE/w-d-xo.html

    • @bannerman6000
      @bannerman6000 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

  • @nyb_ok
    @nyb_ok 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Suddenly, Mona Lisa is flirting with me.

    • @donkbonktj5773
      @donkbonktj5773 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would've been happy if the most famous painting is flirting with me :) Sry if I'm missing a joke.

  • @eclecticreader961
    @eclecticreader961 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    I read an article on Leonardo Da Vinci and I was disappointed with society in how they did not allow him to have a typical education because he wasn't of noble birth. What made me smile about him though, is his passion for knowledge in knowledge itself. He would get sassy with fat aristocratic men, stopping them in the streets to ask them, "describe to me the texture of a humming bird's tongue". I love knowledge in the same miscellaneous way :)

    • @erxfav3197
      @erxfav3197 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Eclectic Reader where did you get that from? I’ve never heard of such a thing or how it could even be known...

    • @sajmaggie7879
      @sajmaggie7879 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, they did it differently back then...

    • @nitinkataria5002
      @nitinkataria5002 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      His father was a count. His mother was a peasant woman. He was an unwanted child. Monalisa describes a woman girl from the same village, I believe.

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Leonardo-s father wasn't a count. And Leonardo was not "unwanted".
      He was cared for by his mother, who married and continued to live in the house where he was born. Here husband probably worked for Leonardo's father in his olive orchard.
      When Leonardo was born, his grandfather wrote in his diary that his Grandson had arrived that night.
      When Leonardo was five he was taken to live with his father, grandfather and young uncle. His father then married a young woman who loved Leonardo, but unfortunately she died in childbirth.
      By the time he was a teenager, Leonardo was already showing great talent.
      His father moved from Vinci which was a large village, into Florence so that Leonardo could be apprenticed to a master painter.
      None of this sounds like an "unwanted" child. He seems to have been very much wanted.
      Later in life, he had a woman in his household called Caterina. This seems to have been his widowed mother who he cared for until her death..

    • @MandyJMaddison
      @MandyJMaddison 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vidal Martinez,
      It is nonsense.
      There are a great number of paintings of the last supper.
      In Florence, where Leonardo grew up, there are at least eight large versions of the painting which Leonardo would have seen as a boy, and as a young painter- by Giotto, Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, della Castagna and others. ALL of them show Saint John the Evangelist as a young, beardless, beautiful youth.
      Think about this: a painter is an artist. He likes pretty things and pretty paintings- but the Last Supper has twelve men and a teenage boy sitting around a table. There is only ONE opportunity to paint something pretty, and that is the teenage boy.

  • @convoyxd6268
    @convoyxd6268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Who painted the Mona Lisa? 😃
    Mona Lisa! 😁
    Da VinKIII? 🤨

  • @aplusigetpeso4417
    @aplusigetpeso4417 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had a teacher that loved this dude she was old but now I see why he was so skilled

  • @constantdarkfog49
    @constantdarkfog49 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the greatest minds ever, he invented so many machines that were years ahead of their time.
    His thinking was so advanced, many believe he could see visions of things to come.

  • @candiceosborn2731
    @candiceosborn2731 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My name and my Sons name is a anagram within Leonardo Da Vinci,s name.I found that interesting

  • @craigmiller1870
    @craigmiller1870 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't know if I'm an old person or not, but I really like this series.

  • @janetbeebe6578
    @janetbeebe6578 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe that a mixture of Genius and Curiosity is timeless.

  • @MandyJMaddison
    @MandyJMaddison 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    4.52 "Something has caught her eye".
    No. He is not intepreting the body language here at all well. THis s not a catching of the eye, which is a sudden thing. This is an adoring gaze, of a mother towards her precious child.

    • @LJTofficial
      @LJTofficial 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      i dont like the guy either

    • @Jesusisinvincible
      @Jesusisinvincible 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes... I guess that too

    • @hughesey009
      @hughesey009 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly.

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Relax. It's one sentence in a pretty good piece.

    • @chelseaj1587
      @chelseaj1587 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I thought the same a mother in love

  • @iushe
    @iushe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Da vinki?!?!

  • @Ludwig1625
    @Ludwig1625 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:20 where the HECK did that beautiful fugue come from, was just minding my own business admiring da vinci.

  • @monzon529
    @monzon529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing.

  • @KOSTAS5678727
    @KOSTAS5678727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    2:26 he says Di caprio instead of Da vinci, how come no-one has noticed this?

    • @biasedpopcorn1754
      @biasedpopcorn1754 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      By “Di Caprio’s namesake”, he’s referring to Da Vinci.

  • @kuppannanmaruthachalam1942
    @kuppannanmaruthachalam1942 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very good and meaningful presentation on the great Leonardo Da Vinci

  • @mmmaria
    @mmmaria 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve read and enjoyed Da Vinci’s biography by Isaacson.

  • @mortalclown3812
    @mortalclown3812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The sniffy unctuousness of the line about a holy few digging the Mona Lisa. Well, golly. Tearfully back to the tedium of my prole life.

  • @ResearchFeatures
    @ResearchFeatures 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    a great man

  • @connerallen642
    @connerallen642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    A poor man whos selling $100mil paintings 500 years after his life

  • @tonylozano4444
    @tonylozano4444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Leonardo, nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein will always be my top 3 most intelligent people

  • @antoniogrieco7127
    @antoniogrieco7127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mai nessuno al mondo come il NOSTRO LEONARDO DA VINCI GENIO ASSOLUTO ITALIANO

  • @alexpsyt
    @alexpsyt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The face of Da Vinci is on Mona Lisa's sleeve

  • @apocalypsegaming3809
    @apocalypsegaming3809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One secret only less of you were know about Da Vinci ... That he's a friend of Ezio 🤗

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
    Antonio Porchia.

  • @emiliobello2538
    @emiliobello2538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hope we get a movie or series about Da Vinci. An Italian one

  • @TheUndertakertje
    @TheUndertakertje 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    How the Dutch walk on ice? Wait for it to be thick enough.

  • @Victoria_Orlova
    @Victoria_Orlova 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We stop living when we cease to notice the faces in the clouds, the cracks in the walls and the figures in leaves.
    When the magic ceases, so does our creativity and imagination, we're just walking shells of a child that once used to be.

  • @csswithmalikbedarbakht
    @csswithmalikbedarbakht 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    All of us have curiosity in different measures. Leonardo's curiosity however was so insatiable , and exceeded all of his other passions like ambition, food, sex etc. That's what made Leonardo Leonardo.

  • @ericcastillo592
    @ericcastillo592 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks you are a chosen one + the moment here

  • @words007
    @words007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Money doesn't make knowledge,
    Knowledge makes money and a billion other things that a man acquires through his life.

  • @patrickisatreestump7817
    @patrickisatreestump7817 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Believe in yourself believe in your dreams
    Look at the first word
    Believe

  • @angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl
    @angelajsacaartistaffiliatedwpl ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful work

  • @denasewell
    @denasewell 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Salvadore Mundi ended up fetching 450 million and worth every penny.Leonardo da Vinci painted in a way that serves as evidence of our human divinity! The Salvatore Mundi is a miraculous sight to behold that invokes an ethereal experience to those who are lucky enough to see the painting in person!

  • @timzlow
    @timzlow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:26 anyone other than me hears you saying Dicaprio???

    • @majamaja3721
      @majamaja3721 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Timz Low yes, they were talking about him as well. He got a name after da vinci

  • @wtbofnc7880
    @wtbofnc7880 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Would love to have been in the Schwanstein Castle in Fussen when he painted the Mona Lisa... Notice I didn't say Schwangau or Florence!

    • @fabioferrarese5600
      @fabioferrarese5600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      H epainted the mona lisa while traveling, the landscape is italian

  • @0xyLina
    @0xyLina 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If i could go back in time, i would want to see where he went and what he did when he was missing

  • @rabiray162
    @rabiray162 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    so nice art.

  • @JR-ub2wt
    @JR-ub2wt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "could fetch 100M' *sells for 450M

  • @teeniebeenie8774
    @teeniebeenie8774 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    ive seen the mona in person
    never understood its appeal
    weird
    the new found salvatore mundi tho is breathtaking.

    • @teeniebeenie8774
      @teeniebeenie8774 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      really??
      di caprio willl ruin yet anoother film???

    • @yobrock1617
      @yobrock1617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      teenie beenie it actually became the most famous painting in the world when it was stolen from the Louvre. The newspaper and books had no images of it but one art critic who loved the painting described it as the most amazing painting in the world and most publications used his description and the public loved it based on his description alone

  • @juliadegooijer245
    @juliadegooijer245 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    They are currently making a film about Leonardo da Vinci in Italy with Aidan Turner as Leonardo.

  • @michaeljunior1445
    @michaeljunior1445 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The old leonardo to this modern leonardo di carpio, both great in their own skills. I will name my son leonardo