How long does it take to read Leonardo Da Vinci: Flights of the Mind?
Charles Nicholl
Leonardo Da Vinci: Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl takes about 11 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 622 pages, about 171,050 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself for five years in all the manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an 'intimate portrait' of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made myriad small discoveries about him and his work and his circle of associates. Among much else, the book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, on his homosexual affairs in Florence, and on his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. A masterpiece of modern biography.
Subjects: Científicos, Artists, Scientists, Artistas, Biography, Biografía
