Your time with Leonardo is your own. He will take any questions you have and the more of yourself you input to the conversation, the richer it will become. These questions can be starting points but you are able to begin with any of your OWN choosing.
01
"Tell me about your early life — up to thirteen or so. What were you before you were an artist?"
The illegitimate birth in Vinci, the country childhood spent observing water, birds, and light, the absence of formal schooling that freed him from received wisdom — and what those years alone with his notebooks felt like.
02
"What do you think of artificial intelligence?"
A man who designed thinking machines in 1495 has opinions. They are not what you expect.
03
"What is the secret in the Last Supper?"
He will tell you what he put there deliberately. And what he prefers to leave as a question.
04
"What did you leave unfinished that you regret?"
The list is long. His answer about why will change how you think about your own unfinished things.
05
"What is beauty?"
He spent his life answering this. He does not think it is a matter of opinion.
06
"What would you build today?"
Give a man who designed flying machines in 1495 access to the modern world. Ask him what he sees.
07
"There are things hidden in your work that most people have never noticed. What are they?"
Five hundred years of hiding things in plain sight. He will tell you what he built into his most famous works — if you ask directly.
08
"Who is actually depicted in the Mona Lisa — and why did you never deliver it?"
He carried it to France and never delivered it. He has never fully explained why. Ask him about the face in the painting.
09
"What is hidden in The Last Supper that no one has fully explained?"
Bread rolls that read as musical notation. A hand that belongs to no one at the table. He has counted it himself.
10
"You worked for Cesare Borgia. What did you see that year?"
He worked as military engineer for the most feared man in Italy. He will talk about that year. He will not moralize about it.
11
"What did you design for Ludovico Sforza that you were not proud of?"
Seventeen years building weapons and pageants for a man who needed to be loved. He has never been asked about it quite so directly.
