Don't expect accuracy and you'll really enjoy this

kosejkbar

I've watched the first episode and I must say that, even as a Leonardo da Vinci enthusiast who is very nitpicky about history, I likes it.
Sure, don't expect a documentary. Don't expect a accurate account of maestro's life.
But expect a truthful depiction of what Da Vinci represented in his period and in the art history.

There are many things that are very different from know history:
Leonardo was much younger when the story with Verrocchio and the angel took placehe was also very light-hairedthe whole murder thing is made up. Leonardo was detained, but for sodomyCaterina da Cremona is made upI could probably continue

But that's not important. No one who read the synopsis or watched the trailer and knew a bit about Da Vinci could possibly expect accuracy. This is fiction, made for entertainment. And it's a pretty well done. It's goal is not to tell what Vasari wrote about Leonardo. It's goal is to entertain us with story about a person who we all know and yet no one really does.
And I think it does it very well.

score 8/10

kosejkbar 24 March 2021

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