Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings - FLIP THROUGH and First Impressions

Hey everyone and welcome to another video. Today I'm going to be finishing off the unboxing of this book right here and then do a little flip through of it. So this came from Amazon because obviously I ordered it from Amazon and it arrived perfectly as you can see and it comes with a little plastic wrap around it which I'm going to get rid of carefully. I have to use my left hand because my right hand is in a little bit of pain. Careful, careful, careful. Okay, here we go. Just remove the scissors. I don't want to accidentally cut this. Plastic wrap gone. Excuse me a moment while I put my wrist splint on. Okay, so this is a cover. Oh, it's really heavy. Okay, oh okay. Alright, let's take this out. I thought it had like a backing on one end but it isn't. It's open, open, open. Look, this is what it looks like and then here it bends down. Goodness, it's really, really heavy. Hold on, let me just sort this out. I don't want to accidentally do anything to it. Okay, put it on the stand and zoom out. Put these scissors away. Massive, really massive. I'll put the exact size in the description or I'll just give you a link to where I bought it. Anyway, try and get that completely in frame. Alright, we got this. Okay, I just want to see what the front cover looks like. Hey, Leonardo da Vinci, the complete paintings and drawings. Oops, put that cover back on. I won't do a flip through of every page because I think there's like 700 pages or something like that. Plus, I don't want to ruin it for anyone who wants to buy this. It's huge. That's really, it's on very beautiful glossy paper, like, like satin. It's not, it's not overly glossy so that you can't see the images. It's perfect. Print quality is beautiful. You know what, actually, let me zoom into this one and you can see the print quality for yourself. How beautiful is that? Oh, I like that. I like that there's all this information here. Leonardo, like other artists at the start of their career, trained his hand and eye by making studies of older works of art and in chubby chubby baby. Wow, look at that. It's kind of a shame. It's always a shame when you have a double page spread because there's always this little centre that kind of ruins it all, but this is amazing. Let's zoom in on this one as well, actually. Amazing. This is well worth the price, by the way. In a couple of reviews, I read people saying that the book is just way too big and that some of the images were a little low resolution, but to me, this size is perfect and it's the reason why I bought it. I first saw this book in a bookshop in Westfield and it was priced at £40 something, but I knew I could get it cheaper online and I did. I got it a little over £10 off on Amazon and I bought it specifically because of the size. I knew it was going to be amazing. Is that the same baby from before? It was in the beginning, right? By the way, I'm not familiar with all of his work. The reason why I bought the book is because recently I've been really obsessed with finding out about our historical artists and what they specialised in and the things that they went through and the person I'm most obsessed with right now is Leonardo da Vinci because he has, from what I can tell, an incredibly analytical mind and I feel like that connects with me a lot because I tend to analyse as well. I'm not just someone who just likes to draw, I like to analyse everything that I'm doing. So Leonardo da Vinci is the one artist that really resonates with me. So obviously his his work has got to be the first book that I bought and I do plan on buying a book on his life. There are so many books out there talking about his life, so if you guys know any really good books that's really comprehensive, includes a lot of information, has a lot of pages, then let me know in the comments below because that is the kind of book I am interested in. I love the colours. The colours are amazing. I've always... this is one of the reasons why I absolutely love historical art, even though I wasn't really obsessed with it when I was younger. It's because of the colours that they use, very earthly tones. It's beautiful. Skip ahead. I really like these double page spreads. They're printed so nice. I'll just skip a few because otherwise it would take forever for me to go through all of this. See, that's a little disappointing, you know, the middle part where it cuts off. But also at the same time I kind of like that they're printed at this size, so you know, it's a compromise that you have to make if you want something at this size. Is that the same baby from before? Come on, that's the same baby from before. I wonder what that... what is that? Forgive me, the people who know their animals inside out. What is that, a weasel? I don't know what that is. Are these from his sketchbooks? These are from his sketchbooks, right? I'm obsessed with his sketchbook drawings. They're absolutely beautiful and I think just looking at them, his sketches online, not this book because obviously I haven't seen this book yet, but just looking at his sketches online is helping me loosen up my own sketches because I'm a bit too much of a perfectionist when it comes to my sketchbooks, which I need to get over if I want to get more observations done. I really like that sepia colour as well for sketching. I think I'm going to get a set of pencils with that tone because the sketches just look beautiful in that tone. I'll probably use them in my toned tan sketchbook, which I haven't used yet, even though I bought it months and months ago. That tone, I love that tone. This painting looks seriously damaged. Skip ahead a little bit more. A lot of text in these, I'm going to spend a lot of time reading through this, of course, of course, of course. I wonder if there are close-ups of this one. Yay! Look at that! You see the close-ups of it? Let's zoom in on this one. I love it, you can see all the cracks in the painting. Isn't that beautiful? I love it. I'm going to enjoy looking through every single one of these. Let's put that back up. Zoom out. I hope my sweat isn't going all over the pages. I'm seriously sweating right now. Kind of excited, kind of. I love horses, they're so beautiful. Skip ahead. I like that they have the full image and then they have close-ups of it. Hey! This is a weasel, I'm guessing. I'm gonna have fun reading through every single one of these. So much text. I like that they've printed it with small bars because obviously that's easier to read and I like that it doesn't fill up the entire page. Can you imagine having a book this big and to have the text fill up the entire page? That would be a little bit overwhelming and no matter how much I like to read these kinds of things, even I would put off reading it. I like that a lot. I like the quality of the print. It really is amazing. Now I completely agree with all of them, not all of the reviews because some of them were a little bit negative but all of the most of the reviews talking about how incredible the print quality is of this book and that it's worth it and someone commented that if this book was priced at a hundred pounds it would be worth the price and I do completely agree. I'm utterly shocked that a book like this can be available for the price that it is and Taschen has more than just a book on Leonardo da Vinci. They have a book on Van Gogh and do they have a book on Michelangelo? I think it's Michelangelo. I'm not entirely sure but I do want the book on Van Gogh as well. Pretty, pretty, pretty. Skip ahead, skip ahead, skip ahead. Oh, horses! I love horses. It's so pretty. See, I'm most interested in looking at the sketchbook drawing but these I'm going to spend a lot of time looking through them because we're all pretty much aware of the main pieces of work but these sketches are the ones that unless you buy the books or you know you have access to the originals you're not really going to see them and and plus even if I do a google search of these you can't trust everything that you see on the internet. Not that you can trust everything you see in a book as well but I feel like this is more credible than what we see than what we see on the internet and what I mean by this is a lot of the times you might have people putting up youtube videos or whatever showing works of artists and then they'll add works from other artists and the viewer being unfamiliar with the work wouldn't know that some of the work isn't from that artist and I did come across a youtube video that did just that so that's why I'm far more interested in looking at sketches inside books which hopefully have been researched and and put together well compared to isn't it weirdly convenient how I paused here and my voice broke. I wasn't actually looking at the drawing but my voice broke so don't don't read anything into that but uh what was I saying now I've forgotten my train of thought yeah I trust what's in the book far more than what I see on the internet sketches sketches sketches let's skip ahead a little bit more I've only got four minutes left on my memory card so I'm gonna have to go through this quicker it's incredible these are the kind of sketches that I need to do I need to do more anatomical sketches really wanna know oh that's a baby in a womb oh what the heck is that is that a sheep skip skip skip oh three minutes okay go for it oh flowers flowers flowers nice skip skip skip mountains whoo this guy did it all sorry I'm skipping through this really quickly I don't have much time on my memory card left oh look at that I love that he writes over his sketchbooks see this there's there's so much in his work that that makes me feel incredibly connected to him because I write all over my sketchbooks as well and then I look at him and I'm like I do something similar to Leonardo da Vinci not that I'm as good as him or ever will be but hey there's one thing that I have in common with the guy like these like analyzes everything that's incredible oh my god two minutes two minutes okay speed it up these are these uh the latter half of the book seems to be sketches only I wonder if we'll get anything else in the end oh yeah that's it that's what I wanted because you know all of his writings are um see this is where you know I don't know much about the guy I don't know what language he speaks or spoke so I don't know what this is written in but there's a book that translates everything that he wrote I think I'm going to pick that book because obviously I want to know what he wrote in his books one minute okay one minute skip skip skip skip skip skip skip oh my god oh what is that oh is that the kind of sketchbook you use oh we're at the end okay importance of drawings school bibliography oh I'll be looking for this I like this thing that that publishers have been doing where they put all of their information at the back rather than at the front I've noticed quite a few doing that oh zero minutes zero minutes okay I'm gonna have to conclude this I hope you guys enjoyed this this flip through uh thank you guys for watching and I will see you next time bye