Leonardo's Brain
Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius
Globe Pequot Publishing · Print & ebook · December 1, 2015
Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.
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- Who it’s for
- A cross-disciplinary look at Leonardo da Vinci’s creative reach and the mind behind it.
- Genres
- Artists' Lives, Renaissance History, Cognitive Neuroscience
- Published
- Globe Pequot Publishing, December 1, 2015
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Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why. .
Many Minds, One Artist
A cross-disciplinary look at Leonardo da Vinci’s creative reach and the mind behind it.
Come here for
- Art, science, psychology, and military strategy in one portrait
- Questions about how creative range might work
Expect
- A life and achievements considered across several fields
- Left-right brain research brought to bear on da Vinci’s genius
Where it sits
| Artists' Lives | 70% |
|---|---|
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 18% |
| Renaissance History | 15% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Renaissance Art History
- Artists' Lives
- Renaissance History
- Neuroscience
- Authors
- Leonard Shlain, Grover Gardner, Brilliance Audio
- Publisher
- Globe Pequot Publishing
- Published
- December 1, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Renaissance Art History