TV series

Leonardo

2021 · 1 season · 8 ep · Drama · Crime

TMDB 7.3/10 (173 votes)

A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.

Created by Frank Spotnitz, Steve Thompson

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Leonardo is a historical drama created by Frank Spotnitz and Steve Thompson. The series was produced by Italian Lux Vide in collaboration with Rai Fiction, Sony Pictures Entertainment, with Frank Spotnitz's Big Light Productions and Freddie Highmore's Alfresco Pictures in association with France Télévisions and RTVE. The series recounts Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary life through the works that made him famous and through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torments of a man obsessed with attaining perfection. In March 2021, it was announced that Leonardo would return for a second season. In October 2022 news emerged that Lux Vide, who made the renewal announcement, have been acquired by the Fremantle group.

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Notable quotes

“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.”
— A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
“Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro. (Modern Italian)”
— Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.
“Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.”
— This relates to a huge equestrian statue that Leonardo had been commissioned to design and create, but which was not cast until over 500 years later, in 1999, when two huge statues based upon his design were finally made. (c.1497)
“O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.”
— Of the lightning in clouds.
“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”
— "Of Hemispheres, which are infinite; and which are divided by an infinite number of Lines, so that every Man always has one of these Lines between his Feet."
“The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.”
— Of Dice

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.”
— A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
“Tristo è quel discepolo che non avanza il suo maestro. (Modern Italian)”
— Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.
“Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.”
— This relates to a huge equestrian statue that Leonardo had been commissioned to design and create, but which was not cast until over 500 years later, in 1999, when two huge statues based upon his design were finally made. (c.1497)
“O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.”
— Of the lightning in clouds.
“Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.”
— "Of Hemispheres, which are infinite; and which are divided by an infinite number of Lines, so that every Man always has one of these Lines between his Feet."
“The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.”
— Of Dice

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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