The Leonardo We Need Him To Be: Walter Isaacson's New Bio Frames The Artist/Thinker For Contemporary Culture

"Our deepest sense of this most famous artist remains subject to change. The systematic publication of the notebooks, beginning in the late nineteenth century, tipped our understanding of his goals from art toward science, and opened questions about how to square the legendary peacefulness of his nature with his designs for ingeniously murderous war machines."

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