Leonardo Da Vinci
(Serge Bramly)
He is the illegitimate son of a public notary and for this he dedicates himself to the ?minor? arts, Leonardo Da Vinci has been a painter, an architect, sculpture, engineer, a student of the natural sciences, anatomist...With his overflowing variety of interests and studies he has pulled himself out of every cliché, in order to represent at best the Renascence spirit, a view over the man, the world and the nature of that age. But who was the true Leonardo? Serge Bramly (born in Tunisi in 1949, great traveller and expert of the photography) is trying to explain to us in his book called ?Artist, Scientist, Philosopher?. Leonardo Da Vinci had many curious characteristics, amongst which was writing from right to left and from the bottom to the top (his famous ?mirror writing?). The anecdotes on him are wasted: one time in Firenze he bought birds in cage?just to give them their freedom back! And what is to be said on the genesis of Gioconda? In 1502 the artist, together with the venture captain Vitellozo Vitelli, stayed for one month in Val d?Arno near Arezzo. Why? To paint the background on which later on will be painted the Monna Lisa. The painting becomes famous immediately after they finish it. After only six years from Leonardo?s death, the Gioconda was evaluated at a prise that in actual terms would be more than one million euros?
Crushed on one side of his unordered dispersion from his multiple activities, to the other side of being defined ?genius?, Leonardo?s human sight from his work is put too often on the second level. Bramly dedicated more than six years to study the seven thousand pages of the manuscripts left by the Tuscan genius, to be finely able to supply the missing image behind the painting. Following step by step his personal and artistic controversial events in a renascence universe, in his already exemplary study, the author succeeded in the same time to overcome the myth and undertake the ambiguous fascination of Leonardo, in order to give back the rich and the infinite complexity of the human.
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