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The passage is about “transformative geniuses” ----.
Leonardo da Vinci is a member of a very small class
of “transformative geniuses,” not ordinary or common
geniuses, who have contributed abundantly to their
fields, but rather the ones who have created or
defined entire fields. In literature, no one asks, “Who
was the greatest writer?” Honest debate can start at
Number Two. Shakespeare, the consensus choice as
greatest writer, is a member of this class of
transformative geniuses. Similarly, Isaac Newton is
recognized as the greatest among scientists and
mathematicians; Ludwig van Beethoven, and
possibly Bach and Mozart, are the transformative
geniuses among composers. The most recent
transformative genius the world has seen may have
been Albert Einstein, a scientist like Newton – and
Time Magazine's “Man of the Century” for the 20th
century. In ranking artists, one can start the debate at
Number Three – a rank for which Raphael and
Rembrandt are candidates, or perhaps one of the
great French Impressionists, or the 20th century's
most famous artist, Picasso. The ranks of Number
One and Number Two, however, are reserved for
Leonardo and Michelangelo, taken in either order.
These two are far above all other artists.
Michelangelo lived a very long lifetime of eighty-nine
years, and was productive to the end. Leonardo, on
the other hand, lived sixty-seven years, and left
behind just a dozen paintings. And only a half of
these are incontrovertibly one hundred per cent by
him. In contrast, Rembrandt painted hundreds of
paintings, 57 of himself alone; van Gogh created nine
hundred paintings in a period of nine years. So how
can we put Leonardo at the very pinnacle? The
answer is really quite simple: his dozen or so
paintings include the Number One and the Number
Two most famous paintings in the history of art – The
Last Supper and Mona Lisa.