The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci History Essay
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Giorgio Vasari's sixteenth-century Lives of the Artists was the primary source of information on the life of Leonardo, long before it was available in French translation (Nicholl 15-35). In Vasari's biography, Leonardo's life and work reconciled three major oppositions: in Leonardo's creations, art merged with science, serious pursuits coexisted with follies, and unfinished works achieved an importance equaling or surpassing that of finished works.