Leonardo da Vinci’s Journals Inspiration for “Da Vinci’s Demons”
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 at 7:52 am Category: News
Da Vinci’s Demons, a new original series airing on STARZ in April, shows us the artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci in a whole new light.
The series begins when da Vinci is in his mid-twenties, and the year is 1477. The show’s creator David S. Goyer has based the series on the missing pages of the famous Italian’s journals, which he was fortunate enough to access during a trip to the British Museum.
Goyer, co-writer of the Dark Knight Trilogy and writer of upcoming Man of Steel, also learned that within a year of da Vinci’s death, 7,000 of his 13,000 journal pages went missing. Da Vinci’s Demons attempts to fill in the gaps, and the existing entries serve as inspiration for the series. Of his visit to the British Museum Goyers says:
“Accessing some of Leonardo da Vinci’s own journal pages from the British Museum’s collection was inspiring to say the least. Even in another language and often, written backwards in da Vinci’s mirror handwriting, one can feel the remarkable influence of daVinci’s unparalleled genius. ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’ is an opportunity to delve into the gaps in history and imagine what this man may have been like and what he may have accomplished in his youth—what might have been in those 7,000 missing pages.”
Now, anyone is able to view the hundreds of pages of journal entries, since the British Library has put them online.
Leonardo da Vinci’s best known works include Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and The Vitruvian Man. He was undoubtedly a genius, far ahead of his time.
The STARZ Original series Da Vinci’s Demons premieres Friday, April 12th at 10pm et/pt.
Response to “Leonardo da Vinci’s Journals Inspiration for “Da Vinci’s Demons””
When was in Paris in 2005, I couldn’t but visit Louvre. But to Louvre came with sound recording equipment which was provided kindly by French. I found “Mona Lisa” and I began to write down the sound background created by numerous visitors, come to look at a masterpiece. The logic was simple. I will dare to note that any masterpiece possesses property of the high-structured information field. The person is too, in the basis, field structure. There is a contact of two field structures – the person and a masterpiece. In it probably art force. Those sounds, which people published, being in a masterpiece field (conversations, a shuffling of feet, etc.), were very valuable to me, they korrelyativno were connected with it. Having subjected these records to the most difficult transformational processing, I managed to receive absolutely improbable soundings. They brought many into shock, – in these sounds accurate identification with “Mona Lisa’s” portrait was observed. I made similar records and at the well-known sculpture of Venus. As a result, on to basis of these records, at me three works – “Knowledge”, “Stream” and “Communication” were born.
http://youtu.be/rUDsL8Rg4uo
MONA LISA_VENUS(Опыт работы с шедеврами) .avi
Structure of presented video: sound background at Mona Lisa – result of transformational processing of a background, a sound background at Venus – result of transformational processing of a background, a work “Knowledge” fragment (the transformed sounds are used only).
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