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Aidan Turner s Leonardo paints his truth and flaunts his good looks
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“A man like Leonardo…” – says a dark-browed Italian – “…his genius is forged by pain, and that pain can drive a man to commit terrible acts.” Cliché klaxon! Here comes a tortured maestro!
Leonardo, Amazon Prime’s new mini-series, is a load of old Renaissance hooey. If you thought the Bridgerton scripts were bad – leaden, laboured, obvious – wait till you hear Aidan Turner’s Leonardo da Vinci, channelling the Duchess of Sussex as he proclaims: “I paint
my truth.” It’s perfectly watchable TV, but how did they make such an infinitely interesting man so dull? This isn’t a moan about historical accuracy; drama needn’t be documentary. But the fictionalised life of an artist should at least
Leonardo. Production still courtesy of Amazon Prime.
A TV series about the life and career of Leonardo da Vinci will be the latest period piece to hit Amazon Prime, the streaming service that disappointingly shows
Bosch, which is somehow not about the Dutch Old Master Hieronymus.
Fortunately, there will be no such confusion surrounding
Leonardo although the plot does revolve around the artist becoming a lead suspect in a murder case in Milan, where he famously painted
The Last Supper. Beyond this fictitious framing device, each episode will also feature the creation of one of his masterpieces.
Irish actor Aiden Turner, who played the title character in the BBC series