{"id":263,"date":"2024-11-17T23:16:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:48:17","slug":"review-ken-burns-pbs-documentary-leonardo-da-vinci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ken Burns PBS documentary &#8220;Leonardo da Vinci&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the Wall Street Journal. I&#39;ve excerpted a key paragraph. The two part series starts this week. Farandaville will be taping it.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/arts-culture\/television\/leonardo-da-vinci-review-ken-burns-portrait-of-the-master-f62ef411?mod=arts-culture_lead_pos1&amp;mod=djemMER_h&amp;mod=djemMER_h\">\u2018Leonardo da Vinci\u2019 Review: Ken Burns\u2019s Portrait of the Master. The celebrated documentarian co-directs this two-night extravaganza on PBS about the towering genius of the Renaissance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it <em class=\"css-i6hrxa-Italic e1ofiv6m0\" data-type=\"emphasis\">is<\/em> ambitious, musically, visually and intellectually. Directed by Mr. Burns, daughter Sarah Burns and David McMahon, \u201cLeonardo da Vinci\u201d is always a feast for the eyes and often enough for the mind, the first non-American subject to be part of the Burns oeuvre and a stylistic departure from previous projects. Yes, there is the close visual inspection of stationary pieces, including the mirror-written notebooks (as Leonardo was left-handed and didn\u2019t want to smear the ink), the anatomical drawings, machine schematics and the major paintings, from the disintegrating \u201cLast Supper\u201d to the \u201cMona Lisa.\u201d But there are also wild visual departures into imagery meant to convey the originality of the subject\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the Wall Street Journal. I&#39;ve excerpted a key paragraph. The two part series starts this week. Farandaville will be taping it.&#0160; \u2018Leonardo da Vinci\u2019 Review: Ken Burns\u2019s Portrait of the Master. The celebrated documentarian co-directs this two-night extravaganza on PBS about the towering genius of the Renaissance. But it is ambitious, musically, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7058,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/7058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}