It sure seems like nobody gives a single fuck about this guy anymore. He's not perceived as some sort of grand mystical polymath who was once blessed with transcendental wisdom and genius ; he's just some painter now. Nobody even really reads or talks about his writings. He used to hailed in the same way that normalfags talk about William Blake in current year. But you just have to accept him as another commodity in the grand mosaic of everyday life. What does this all mean? That there's really no reason to peruse these kinds of geniuses' minds anymore? Was the obsession with the Italian Renaissance painters just a 'sham' pushed by art historians and the like to justify their positions and their degrees?
da vinki?
>>24745960In our cynical, materialist world, inventions need to be economical, mass production friendly, practical. Most of his genius ideas had no application in the real world. They were just trippy prototypes with no pragmatic value.
>>24745966So, in other words, he really wasn't much of a ''''genius''''
>>24745968Do you believe the earth is round?
>>24745962I doubt anyone on here is old enough to remember this meme.
>>24745973all your vinki are belong to us
>>24745970Sure. What's your point?
>>24746026What practical purpose does it serve you to hold any belief as to whether the earth is round or not?
>>24746030I can walk along with the herd, keep my head down, and not be ostracized
the da vinci code unironically killed his legacy
Reverence for artists is replaced by:>Errm didnt u know all le old masters used camera obscura/lucida for tracing??Which is mostly bs but many people prefer easy explanations of mindblowing skills.
>>24746876Virtuosos are uncool
>da Vinci was hyped during era of engineers, but objectively there were more impressive renaissance polymaths. Martin Luther was a greater renaissance man than da Vinci.t. BarzunLet's consider OP's and Barzun's opinions true for a moment. It would follow that the era of engineers is ending and we will hype another renaissance man.
>>24746995>BarzunLiterally who
Last time I checked, people still want to see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum.
