[New-Poetry] Leonardo the failure

[Anny Ballardini]

Incredible, indeed. Thank you. If you read Vasari's wonderful notes on
Leonardo, he stresses that Leonardo wanted things "oh... just so big!"
http://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/phil%20of%20art/printer-friendly/Vasari%20on%20Leonardo%20TWO%20columns.pdf

marvelous and divine, the son of Ser Piero da Vinci...

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:54 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> http://www.jamescoxgallery.com/leonardo.shtml
>
> Some may recall that one Leonardo project, a massive bronze, was
> finally cast in Beacon NY a few years back, and then installed in the city
> that Leonardo intended it for, Milan Italy.
> Finnegan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 2:42 am
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Leonardo the failure
>
> some things are right, some are wrong. There was no way Leonardo could sell
> a submarine or a jet to a little local lord, that is also why he never made
> it, not just out of procrastination and insecurity! And to those who want a
> well-ordered society, and here I agree with the end of the article, they are
> killing geniality.
> Yes, how can we separate laziness from geniality? But just have a look at
> the Notebooks.
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:52 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=zs61txc4kwr4kd1q1rjbfxt41952gdmf
>>
>> His notebooks were crammed with inventions: new kinds of clocks, a
>> double-hulled ship, flying machines, military tanks, an odometer, the para
>> chute, and a machine gun, to name just a few. If you wanted a new high-tech
>> weapon, a gigantic bronze statue, or a method for moving a river, Leonardo
>> could devise something that just might work.
>>
>> But Leonardo rarely completed any of the great projects that he sketched
>> in his notebooks. His groundbreaking research in human anatomy resulted in
>> no publications — at least not in his lifetime. Not only did Leonardo fail
>> to realize his potential as an engineer and a scientist, but he also spent
>> his career hounded by creditors to whom he owed paintings and sculptures for
>> which he had accepted payment but — for some reason — could not deliver,
>> even when his deadline was extended by years. His surviving paintings amount
>> to no more than 20, and five or six, including the "Mona Lisa," were still
>> in his possession when he died. Apparently, he was still tinkering with
>> them.
>>
>>
>
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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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