The Flying Heart-A Biography of leonardo da vinci traces Leonardo's unusual life experience. The biography begins with an unfinished manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci's later years. The text on this geometric manuscript was suddenly interrupted by the words "Wait ……", and the last line of the page read: "The soup is getting cold." Nicole introduced the legendary world of Leonardo da Vinci to us with this interesting life detail. 1452, Leonardo da Vinci was born in a small village near Florence. He is an illegitimate child, his mother is a poor peasant girl, but his father comes from a wealthy notary family and has a family. Such a background doomed Leonardo to be shrouded in the psychological shadow of "illegitimate child" since he was a child, and the lack of fatherly love was particularly obvious in his later works. After spending his childhood in the town of Finch, one day in the 1960s in 15, under the management of his father, the young Leonardo da Vinci left his hometown and went to Florence to study under the famous artist Andrea del verrocchio. This is a decisive turning point in Leonardo's life, and it is also the key for him to become a painting wizard and multidisciplinary expert in the heyday of the Renaissance. 1475, in the last year of Da Vinci's apprenticeship, the first legitimate child brought by his father's third marriage completely deprived Da Vinci of his inheritance right. The "cold war" between Leonardo da Vinci and his father began.
During his apprenticeship, Leonardo systematically studied painting, and his young mind began to take off. After 1 1 years of apprenticeship, Leonardo opened his own studio in 1477, and the creation of "The Doctor Comes to Worship" made him famous at one fell swoop. At the same time, the wings of the mind also extend to other fields. He loves music, writes poems, and even composes his own music and practices a violin-like instrument. He also drew a mechanical drawing, designed a "hydraulic mill, washer and engine" and a sketch of his lifelong dream-"flying machine". Milan period is the heyday of his creation and the most full-fledged stage of his wings. During this period, he not only created the Madonna of Rock and the most famous Last Supper, but also fully demonstrated his talents in other fields. He is very versatile in many scientific fields, like a duck to water. He studies the relationship between quantity and force, motion and force in physics; Learning abstract geometry; I have mastered the knowledge of human anatomy and studied physiology and medicine. He also invented the parachute and designed various lifting equipment.
Leonardo da Vinci achieved so many important scientific and technological research results, which is inseparable from his scientific attitude and philosophical thought. Leonardo da Vinci lived in a turbulent era when the feudal society in Europe was in decline, social change, religious reform, Renaissance and the development of humanism. He opposed scholasticism, did not believe in authority, and advocated observation and experiment as the only correct scientific method. He also attaches importance to the role of mathematics and theory. He believes that "any discussion about human beings can't be called real science unless it is proved by mathematics." His scientific thought has the characteristics of modern scientific spirit. Like other humanists, he praised people, life and nature, pursued scientific knowledge, advocated rationality, advocated culture, praised people's brave behavior and achievements in the real world and so on.
Different from other biographies of leonardo da vinci, Nicole abandons the traditional writing style of worshipping Leonardo da Vinci on the basis of historical materials, and shows readers not only the greatness of Leonardo da Vinci, but also the ordinary side of Leonardo da Vinci. At the same time, Nicole also analyzed the psychological hints revealed in Da Vinci's works-the influence of "illegitimate child" status on his life, his desire for flying, the great contrast between the pursuit of art and reality, and so on. In addition, the book also shows the ordinary life of Leonardo da Vinci: developing pigments, recording experiences, signing contracts with the church, and worrying about funds, all of which show us an "ordinary" Leonardo da Vinci. In this book, the author also discusses the ambiguous relationship between Leonardo da Vinci and young students, the true identity of Mona Lisa, and the subtle relationship between him and several patrons. All this makes readers understand a more real Da Vinci, an Ada Da Vinci who "stepped off the altar".