Ken Burns on the genius of Leonardo da Vinci
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- Опубліковано 11 січ 2025
- Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, renowned for his documentaries on such topics as the Civil War, baseball, jazz and the Statue of Liberty, has now focused on 15th century Italian artist and intellectual Leonardo da Vinci. Correspondent David Pogue talks with Burns and his producing partners, daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon, about their PBS documentary on the man Burns calls "one of the most incredibly interesting human beings who has ever walked the Earth."
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This guy has a crazy body of work. What a legacy.
Leonardo DaVinci too :D
DaVinci? Well, yeah.
I know right
Baseball is a masterpiece. Pan and scan all nine innings!
The thing I love about Ken Burns is that at a young age he found what he wanted to do with his life. We are the beneficiaries.
Time for me to enjoy.
Ken Burns - national treasure
🎯💯🙏🏼
I can't wait to see this Leonardo Da Vinci documentary next month.
it's incredible so far!
@@MattKeithley I enjoyed his documentary very much. His revolutionary war documentary is next year.
Da Vinci's genius is universal and doesn't have any boundaries and his curiosity is unparalleled compared to others.
Exciting! And as I turn 67, inspired that he's still making tremendously good and valuable and creative work at 71.
It’s never too late to make something great!
My dads 67 and does what he loves.stay inspired you still have a long time to do great stuff
Burns is brilliant and has given us so much. Imagine how much we would have missed by looking at what we have gotten.
Last year I got around to watching Ken’s doc on The Roosevelts and it was incredible. It wasn’t just a history of the family, it was a history of the US and politics and social conditions of the first half of the 20th Century. Just amazing stuff.
I actually binge watched it.
Will have to watch, while waiting on this new project!
Yes that's an excellent series!
I’ve watched The Roosevelts at least 8 times, with every watch I learn something new. I just love Ken Burns’ documentaries!
I binged "The Roosevelts" in 2016 and realized at that time Trump was following the Roosevelts' campaign playbook. Electricity went up my spine when I realized Trump was going to win the 2016 election...
Along with our monthly subscription to National Geographic magazine, the best gift my father ever gave me was making me sit in front of the TV every night and watch PBS. Thanks Dad. I miss you and wish you were still here to watch this one with me.
I'm going to do the same. Will get my cousin nat geo and PBS.
Afraid Trump's henchmen might try to take down PBS
Can't wait. I saw his docs on baseball and jazz and I loved them.
thank you ken burns, the greatest documentary filmmaker ever!
and thank you PBS for streaming the davinci movie for free on your site
Ken Burns has often been on my list of people I'd like to have dinner with or If you were stranded on a desert island....
A fascinating man, looking forward to what his daughter does in her career..
Thank you for this segment!! 🌞
Love Ken Burns work.
_Thanks for sharing._
I stood in front of the Mona Lisa, captivated by the splendor of her presence. That experience moved me in ways I could never have imagined.
I was so enthralled by Ken’s Vietnam War series that I got it on disc and I watch it once a year - it’s that good. Can’t wait to see this one.
Thank you for featuring Ken Burns and his new documentary.
I worked for Ken at his restaurant in NH. He's such a humble, kind and super talented guy!
I’m in Tuscany watching this right now now. Heading to Florence soon. Great to watch while in Italy.
I really think The narrator Keith David is fantastic. He’s narrated a number of Burns’ documentaries.
He has one of those distinctive voices, like James Earl Jones or Morgan Sheppard.
@@Coloss1.23 Indeed! And I thought of another distinctive voice since my comment: Sam Elliot!
I became a fan of Keith David in platoon and dead presidents. Good actor but better narrator. Blacks just have the best story telling voices.
Sweet. Can't wait. Burns is a genius, too.
Love Keith David as a Narrator but my heart will always be a Peter Coyote fan!!
Oliver Platt is good too 😊
@@ThePearlsofGrayRichard Attenborough is a wild kingdom narrator for the wildlife films.
Which docs did Peter do?
@@smtsmt1223 i know he did the Roosevelts
@@smtsmt1223 "the" documentary. The Civil War.
I can't wait to see this new film by Ken Burns, big boy haircut and all!
Got a laugh that it was Tom Brokaw who suggested the " big boy haircut " . 😅
I have Watched (and own) nearly ALL of his Docs. Jazz, Baseball, Country Music, N. Parks, Lewis and Clark, Jack Johnson. Of course,
"The Civil War" started it all. 1 thing that sets Burns apart from others is. He not only tells a great story. He also Has the most skilled and
talented narrators! Sadly, 1 of our greatest voices, James Earl Jones (RIP), Never narrated a Burns doc. but "Keith David" has All the chops
to make this yet another great production!👍👌
Cant wait to see this. I'm sure it's going to be Great.. PBS is the Best..
Always love when a new Ken Burns documentary comes out! Thank you!
👍👍 Ken Burns is a National Treasure!
Ken Burns is a national treasure. Can't wait to see this documentary.
I'm going to do the same. Time for me to enjoy.
Ken Burns is a brilliant filmmaker ,but Leonardo Da Vinci was the greatest brain that ever existed until this day,way ahead of his time by centuries,what a fascinating subject Ken ,and family,thank you so much !
Thank you for your fine sense of humor as well as your talents in research and documentaries, Mr. Burns 😊
The greatest film maker in history...in my opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Burns is the da Vinci of the documentary.
so so many wonderful angels have been with us and are still with us...caulder, davis, burns, lauper...the mind boggles...thank...love...
My favorite artist of all time !!!
Ken Burns is the absolute best. If his name is on it, I watch it. I watched the PBS special about Leonardo da Vinci and I'm in awe of his brilliant mind. Leonardo da Vinci is ""Jack of all trades, master of every one of them". Ken Burns got it right when he said, "one of the most incredibly interesting human beings who has ever walked the Earth." I wholeheartedly agree!
One of my favorite documents is a letter of application for employment to a duke orsomething. I’m sure you can look it up and read it. His writing style is incredibly vigorous and it looks like a modern cover letter today. He talks about how his painting skill is on par with any of his contemporaries and how the, Duke will appreciate his inventions with regard to defensive equipment. You know cannons, and things like that. And it’s just so contemporary and the way he talks about his work qualifications to be hired as the estate artist and architect and weapons, manufacturer designer for the Duke. Definitely worth a read. It’s like a one page cover letter and it’s amazing.
Looking forward to watching this one. His Country Music doc is really great as well.
Hey Ken, you need to do docs like this about the big three guys of English literature: Shakespeare, Milton and Chaucer.
add William Blake to that list
@@84paratize YES!!
Cannot wait to see the documentary!!!!
Burns is right about the question of Da Vinci "procrastination". Leonardo had a probing mind in a world that is always changing, and so he was also always learning and always changing. To be static in that world, would be inauthentic.
Ken Burns is awesome. Love watching his documentaries. Looking forward to seeing this one.
I can’t wait to see this, or, really any project by Ken Burns. He constantly brings forth points many curious folks begin to imagine, but, at least for myself, can’t quite make the leap to what we want to know, and, that which we all hope might be the case. Grateful for the astounding Da Vinci’s and Mr. Burn’s incredible smarts, brains and lovely abilities to make unbelievable human accomplishments even more great! And understandable beyond my poor comprehension. Bravo!
Watched the first part last night. Fascinating. And presented so very well.
So happy to hear Keith David's voice narrating this.
I know so much about DaVinci, I carry his name and yet being a big fan of another great-Ken Burns, I know I'm going to learn things I didn't know about The Maestro in this film.
They speculate he could write a letter with his right hand while drawing a picture with his left hand at the same time which is absolutely mindblowing!! Im a huge admirer of Da Vinci...Got a tattoo as a tribute to him
I look forward to Ken Burns films he is a fabulous filmmaker! I have really enjoyed them!
Ken is an amazing film maker. Leonardo da Vinci is a fascinating person. I can’t wait to see this documentary.
I will spend my winter vacation catching up on Ken Burns' films. 😍😍😍 Thank you
Burns is brilliant. Can't wait for this one! !
I absolutely Love the Renaissance Period, I am looking forward to see this
I've heard from more than one expert now that Leonardo had a short attention span -- or perhaps more correctly, that he couldn't bear to stay focused on any one thing for too long. I wonder if he suffered from some sort of affliction we'd now diagnose as ADHD. (Edit: Scanning the comments, it appears I'm not the only one who suspects this 🙂).
It was more likely to be the opposite as he spend a long time on a idea or thought to where he was transfixed by it, His Codex on Anatomy is a good example as it was Taboo at the time to discuss this or show casts he made of Organs, And so the Codex wasn't found until the 1600's and when it was it was Revolutionary for Biology and anatomy.
I am a procrastinator and I also have ADHD. Leonardo had the latter. He may have also been a procrastinator, but the description of his own questions having already been answered, and moving on to the next thing very much reminds me of myself (not to compare myself with Leonardo in any other way, of course).
You don't know what he had or what anyone has. You don't have a degree.
@@mkhanman12345😂 as if a degree is the be all end all
When I learned, over 30 years ago, of Ken Burn's Civil War documentary, it was noted that he used old photos to tell the story. I'll never forget how disappointed I was to hear that. I thought, "Well, I'll watch it, but it will probably put me to sleep....." I couldn't have been more wrong!
I just taught Leonardo da Vinci last week to my kids as a private English teacher in Poland.
In America, high school kids would ask, "isn't that the guy that was on the Titanic"?
I believe the unfinished pieces are even better than the completed works.
It sounds as if he (Leonardo) was INTP if you ascribe to the Myers Briggs categories. What is amazing was that he was able to explore all those things in that era.
Though these behaviors can resemble something similar to ADHD, But it's also worth noting that da Vinci lived in a very different time, with different social and educational structures. Furthermore, ADHD is a modern diagnosis, and applying it retroactively to historical figures is speculative at best. What we interpret as ADHD-like traits could also have stemmed from other factors, such as his intense creative personality or even the conditions of the Renaissance era.
I was today years old when I learned Ken Burns was still alive - what an amazing prolific
5:09 why do they phrase the editing question about iphones or macintosh's? Windows machines, microsoft & other software and other mobile devices can also edit photos the same way. Its not exclusive to apple products
Keith David’s voice is so rich and magnificent. We got the great Peter Coyote on some earlier Burns pieces.
Can’t wait!
'Letters from Leonardo' is a view into da Vinci's "lost years," when he fled to Amboise, France after accepting an invitation from François I, who offered him sanctuary and patronage near the end of his life, while escaping the danger of debts owed to the Medici for unfinished works. He died at Amboise in 1519 and is buried there.
Love it. All of it. Thanks you very much
Finally, something apolitical. Thank you, thank you thank you!
So happy they have Keith David as the narrator!!!!!!
I love that he consistently uses Keith David’s voice.
DaVinci was a genius, Burns displays that, and I enjoyed the video.
Having read Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists about Leonardo and Michael White’s book entitled Leonardo :The First Scientist I am excited to see this documentary next month.
Reminder to those that think that if they don’t get into or go to this or that school, that their life would be debilitated…Leonardo never had formal education.
His education as a youth was to wander around nature with his uncle and to learn about how the world works. He then apprenticed as a young man in an art studio to mostly learn about building a work ethic…learning art technique was a bonus.
I look forward to this!!!
Keith David is the primary Narrator of this documentary. His voice is magnificent.
This has been the ultimate Renaissance Being we've ever known of.
I can NOT wait for the 'Burns' effect on this too!
It's wild, this man from centuries ago whom I never officially studied specifically I can say, still influences my art subconsciously I'm certain to some extent. And......I'll partly thank Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird for some of that interest in Da Vinci as well.
Leonardo is among the many prominent people throughout history who didn't eat meat. Today, he would be vegan. His previous subject, Benjamin Franklin also decided to stop eating meat at one point.
Shoutout to Keith David too. Looking forward to this one
I love that the narrator also narrated the Netflix series "Maniac."
Ken Burns deserves his flowers now
Spoke at my daughter’s graduation. Was a pleasure .
That’s so awesome!!! What school? I would’ve been so excited
@ Penn State graduation.
I really appreciate your work❤
Well said, he was satisfied, just for himself.
The Leonardo ages are showing us, if there's a political will to pull out the genius nature out of an individual...it might surprise you. Leonardo loved to make money, there are so many projects he wanted to work on because he was asking money... obviously to finance his crazy scientist projects. It's famous the story of fireworks he prepared for the Milan's Prince, the Leonardo's audience in Milan was so surprised, they were capable to pay any price to get entertained by such spectacular fireworks of the times. He was clever and smart, a big business man on his huge natural talent. Thanks God, all his drawings were saved all across the centuries, there are so many things to learn, so curious things we could never think about even about .. human body details. Now we have computers and high definition pixels vision, try to imagine Leonardo what would he do about it. If we care to dig so deep in our human body secrets to find out how a cancer reacts, where it starts, it would be again a Renaissance revolution. Anyone is used these days, having thousand milion selfies and pictures, why not using selfies for health research purposes? Computers can compare maps and pictures in order to let us know how a cancer evolve, where and how to eliminate the.. hostile nasty pixels. Renaissance is about stepping forward, about evolution, about progress, about improving lives... about becoming genius because... it's just a brain training.. anyone can be a genius
Ken Burns never changed his Beatle mop top hair cut because his mother passed when he was 11 and he felt keeping his hair style was a way of staying connected with her. During the pandemic his hair grew out and he must have decided to trim it a different way since.
Fascinating on all facets. I agree with LD being the most incredible person ever but Einstein wouldn't be too far behind. Bravo
As a fan of Ken Burns, I know this Leonardo da Vinci documentary will be insightful. BTW, Ken, your big boy haircut looks great.
Look forward to seeing it
Ken burns vietnam series is my fav work from him
So happy I picked up a book for my sons years ago. That visit 5o Florence..though 🎉
Will Keith David take on the role of Darth Vader? Can't wait to see this new Burns doc.
He _does_ have one of those distinctive voices, doesn't he? Like James Earl Jones or Morgan Sheppard.
Ken Burns, you missed the boat! You should have done a documentary on your hair styles through the years. ✂️ 😂😂😂
Read Walter Isaacson's biography. Just incredible. It's amazing how close he came to understanding flight. His ideas were centuries before their time. And he wasn't as interested in painting as he was in science. And yeah, he often made paintings that were about action. His portraits were innovative bc they were at 3/4 angles rather than profiles or straight on. Also, he invented something called Sfumato (did I get that right?) to create a more realistic sense focal length. He also knew how to hustle for funds.
Love this!!
Can't wait!
I never knew DaVinci was genius. Thanks Ken!
Thank you, Again !!
Jazz is Still my favorite but i look forward to this
The American Experience, American Masters.. infinity and Beyond, dear BBC.
Can’t wait to see this on PBS. Fun fact: the only da Vinci in the Americas is housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.: “Ginevra de' Benci”
I read in a DC comic (of all places!) when I was a kid that it was not proper to refer to Leonardo as "da Vinci," because that was just where he was from, it wasn't his last name. He is simply "Leonardo."
This is wonderful
Thanks Ken!
Da Vinci only left his unfinished projects for people to think like he does and finish him. I guarantee he knew how to finish them but he wanted other people to use their mines like he did. I think it’s the most educational stuff ever very good teacher. The best teacher is the one that, gives you a problem and you have to solve it
All the time, knowing the answer, a genius
Or maybe he didn’t but he wanted to open peoples minds on how to problems solve. I think it’s incredible.