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Ken Burns and His ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ Co-Directors on Why They Broke Their Rules for PBS’ Portrait of the Renaissance Icon
'Leonardo da Vinci' directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon on their PBS documentary about the Italian Renaissance painter and intellectual.
“Mona Lisa” just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” A controversial allusion to his famed “The Last Supper” during this summer’s Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony reacquainted the masses with the iconic image’s origins, and his “Vitruvian Man” is still a staple on the walls of anatomy classrooms across the globe. In the film, now streaming on PBS.org and local PBS affiliates, they make the case that da Vinci is the greatest painter ever to have lived, an argument that would find few dissenters considering his landmark works are among the most recognized and replicated pieces of art in history. Monsignor Timothy Verdon takes the viewer through a theological reckoning with “The Virgin of the Rocks.” Artist Carmen Bambach narrates the unfolding artistry of “The Last Supper.” Art historian Francesa Borga dissects “The Mona Lisa” as more than just this mysterious smirking woman, but rather as a late-in-life culmination of all everything da Vinci had taught himself.
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