Leonardo da Vinci: Art and Music Expressions Series [5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio/Video Disc] [Blu-ray]

Very Nice! This custom disc blasts onto Blu-ray with a decent, if not overwhelmingly excellent, VC-1 encoded 1080p image with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Detail here can be exceptional, with every scratch inside the capsule clearly visible and the encroaching frost ...

Format : NTSC
Publisher : MediaInVision/Surround Records
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci , April 15, 1452 May 2, 1519 was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote. Born the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice and spent his last years in France, at the home awarded him by Francis I. Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time, respectively, their fame approached only by Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on everything from the Euro to text books to t-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings survive, the small number due to his constant, and frequently disastrous, experimentation with new techniques, and his chronic procrastination. Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, comprise a contribution to later generations of artists only rivalled by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo. Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

Video: ART of Leonardo da Vinci: 1080p VC-1 Slideshow Presentation includes fragments from Annunciation, The Madonna of the Carnation, Adoration of the Magi, Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and many more.

Audio: Program produced with Music by Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach 24 bit 96K 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio

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Very Nice! by .. Richard Vaymen (Chicago, IL USA)
This custom disc blasts onto Blu-ray with a decent, if not overwhelmingly excellent, VC-1 encoded 1080p image with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Detail here can be exceptional, with every scratch inside the capsule clearly visible and the encroaching frost seeming to almost grow before the viewer's very eyes. There isn't a lot of color here, and in fact the palette seems deliberately muted in order to maintain focus on the emotional content of the film. Flesh tones are lifelike and what color there is is nicely saturated. Depth of field is good to excellent throughout the feature. We do get a few instances of moire patterns and aliasing on some of the more finely textured apparel and other scrimshaw patterns on the sets, but they're very fleeting. The sound is all you could ask for, nicely surrounded, and the filler of the Bach and Vivaldi concertos are wonderfully done, though I could have wished for a couple more with 20 minutes left on the disc. This won't displace my favorites of the past, but it definitely goes to the top of the heap in surround recordings.