Leonardo Da Vinci on SBS and SBS on Demand S1E2 – By Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon.
A 15th-century polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most revered works of art of all time, but his artistic endeavours often seemed peripheral to his pursuits in science and engineering.
Through his paintings and thousands of pages of drawings and writings, Leonardo da Vinci explores one of humankind’s most curious and innovative minds.
Episode Two:
Leonardo works as a military engineer, designs fanciful flying machines, studies light and shadow, investigates gravity, dissects cadavers, and pens treatises on a vast array of subjects, all while seeking the perfect patron.
In Florence, Milan, Rome and finally France, he pours the sum of his scientific and artistic knowledge into a portrait that would become the most famous painting on earth.
Leonardo Da Vinci on SBS and SBS on Demand – Final Episode / Saturday 16 August at 8.20pm (2 Parts)
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Leonardo Da Vinci on SBS and SBS on Demand S1E2
