Thoughts on Art and Life
Leonardo da Vinci
At the age of 55 Leonard da Vinci set out to organize his ideas from a review of the thousands of pages of notebooks he had produced over an intensely productive lifetime. He begins with “Begun at Florence in the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli, on the 22nd day of March, 1508; and this is to be a collection without order, taken from many papers which I have copied here, hoping to arrange them later, each in its place, according to the various subjects treated.” The result is Thoughts on Life and Art, a collection of thoughts made in simple statements, some as short as one sentence, many a single paragraph, seldom more. Many take on the character of an epigram, an axiom, perhaps a revelation. Others show a keen mind quickly paring a subject down to its essence. Each idea seems described as it occurred to Leonardo in the instant of its conception. There 333 entries in all, organized into three groups: 129 Thoughts on Life, 93 Thoughts on Art, and 111 Thoughts on Science. The book was assembled by editor Lewis Einstein from translations by Maurice Baring. It contains a Table of References that lists the nineteen source documents with a listing by page and thought for each section showing the source document. It was initially published by the Merrymount Press in Boston in 1906 in a run of 303 copies. It is a remarkable digest of the workings of one of the greatest minds ever to grace the planet.
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Product Details
| Read by: | Peter Tucker |
| Length: | 1 hour and 13 minutes |
| Type: | Solo readings |
| Media: | MP3 CD |
| Package: | DVD case |
| Item No.: | DB-1236 |
| List Price: | $9.99 |
| Artwork: | Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing |
| CD label art: | Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats |
| CD jewel case art: | Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card |
| DVD case art: | Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert |
Credits
Book coordinator: Amy Gramour
Meta coordinator: Amy Gramour
Proof listener: Amy Gramour
Artwork
Cover: Presumed self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), circa 1512
Inset: Vitruvian Man, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
Inset: Raffaello Sanzio Morghen (1758-1833), engraving after the Uffizi portrait, 19th century, 1817, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Insert: Raffaello Sanzio Morghen (1758-1833), engraving after the Uffizi portrait, 19th century, 1817, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Table of Contents
| Track | Chapter | Reader | Length |
| 1 | Introduction | Katherine Engan | 27:16 |
| 2 | Thoughts on Life-Part Two | TomDavisBeal | 13:14 |
| 3 | Thoughts on Life-Part Three | TomDavisBeal | 17:41 |
| 4 | Thoughts on Life-Part Four | TomDavisBeal | 19:46 |
| 5 | Thoughts on Life-Part Five | TomDavisBeal | 13:20 |
| 7 | Thoughts on Art-Part Two | Claire Stewart | 19:19 |
| 8 | Thoughts on Art-Part Three | Claire Stewart | 19:27 |
| 9 | Thoughts on Art-Part Four | Amy Gramour | 16:45 |
| 10 | Thoughts on Art-Part Five | Amy Gramour | 16:33 |
| 11 | Thoughts on Art-Part Six | Amy Gramour | 18:00 |
| 12 | Thoughts on Art-Part Seven | Amy Gramour | 16:33 |
| 13 | Thoughts on Science-Part One | Availle | 19:00 |
| 14 | Thoughts on Science-Part Two | Availle | 19:54 |
| 15 | Thoughts on Science-Part Three | Availle | 20:39 |
| 16 | Thoughts on Science-Part Four | Availle | 21:08 |
| 17 | Bibliographical Note | Kathrine Engan | 02:08 |
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