Leonardo da Vinci is remembered as the ultimate genius, yet he finished almost nothing he started. This video follows Leonardo da Vinci from Vinci to Florence, Milan, Rome, and France, asking why the man behind the Mona Lisa left so many unfinished works. You'll see why Leonardo da Vinci abandoned the Adoration of the Magi, watched the Sforza horse become cannon, and painted the Last Supper on a wall that began to decay in his lifetime. But the real answer may be in his notebooks: over 7,000 pages on water, flight, anatomy, and the human heart. Long before modern medicine, Leonardo da Vinci described how the aortic valve closes, a discovery lost for over 450 years. From the Mona Lisa to his unfinished works, Leonardo da Vinci kept chasing questions instead of finished commissions. Was it temperament, war, or method? This is the story of history's most famous unfinished genius. It's a detective story about art, war, and curiosity. Subscribe to historian4a for more deep dives into history's most fascinating minds.
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