The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
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Movie Reviews of The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
Movie Review: At Long Last Leonardo!
Summary: 5 Stars
Like the reviewer above, I've been waiting a long time for this video. And it's every bit as good as I remember it being. The sets, costumes and, of course, actors are all superb (especially Phillipe Leroy as Leonardo). I also always enjoyed the Rod Serling-like commentator who occasionally invades the scene, giving background details or insights into Leonardo's thoughts and personality. A must for any Leo-lover!Movie Review: Comprehensive And Serious Study Of Leonardo
Summary: 5 Stars
This video set provides a lot of historical perspective on the strange life of Leonardo da Vinci who was without question one of the weirdest people who ever lived.
It's difficult to really compare him to anyone else such as other people who are generally considered geniuses today. He seemed to be someone who was good at many things but only wanted to do things that he was interested in and he often left things unfinished.
What was unique about da Vinci was the combination of artistic and scientific interests. He seemed to have basically unlimited energy and curiousity.
Leonardo was in some ways very fortunate because he was held in the very highest esteem by some rich people. The king of France treated him almost like royality. Here's a guy who would think nothing of sending thousands of soldiers into a human meat grinder but yet he felt that Leonardo was one of the greatest men that ever lived.
Leonardo was treated very well by the standards of the day and he always seemed to have money. A lot of these guys he worked for were killers including the guy he put on all those pagents for. That was also the guy who's young ambitious wife died as fate eventually always returns sadness to the cruel and greedy.
Leonardo had his hard times also and really never had a home until old age. I think he had a hard time fitting his intense interests into the primitive social structure of the times.
Were he alive today da Vinci would most likely be a surgeon or scientist or at least he would try to become these things.
Leonardo came close to being burned at the stake for something he would say and get involved in some 500 years in the future. Something that exists outside of time.
But fortunately he is remembered for his great spiritual paitings, especially The Last Supper which miraculously has somehow survived after beginning to deteriorate soon after it was finished due to using the wrong types of paiting methods.
He tried to create a gigantic oil painting on a wall and he treated the wall like a gigantic canvas.
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Movie Review: The Life of Leonardo da Vinci
Summary: 5 Stars
Originally telecast by PBS stations in 1972 as "I, Leonardo" this five-part series earned a Golden Globe award for Best TV Drama in 1973. I loved it then and was thrilled to be able to finally see it again after so many years. The program is simply outstanding, stunning, superb, bellissima . . . I've run out of superlatives to describe it. A vividly illustrative, highly-detailed, historically accurate, only-occasionally-sentimental account of the life of an incredible human being, the program provides a great deal of information about all facets of Leonardo's life and the personal, political, and artistic challenges that confronted him. I enjoyed the detailed background provided about his mother Caterina,about whom very little is known, and the balanced handling of his relatonships with the two primary disciples in his life, Salai and Francisco Melzi. The video also provides a wealth of information about the historical events that forced him to leave and return to Florence and Milan, the political intrigue of the leaders he had to collaborate with, and the bitter rivalry between him and Michaelangelo in his later years. It's a show I can and will watch over and over and over again . . . and again.Movie Review: Absolutely BRILLIANT. A must see!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been searching for this movie on video for 23 years! I saw it when I was a teenager and fell in love with the cast! If you, like me, know Leonardo inside-out you will truly love this movie. Do yourself a favour and buy this one! Everything is authentic, and was intricately researched, right down to costumes. It is a magnificent movie.