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Leonardo da Vinci

1996
A biography of the Italian Renaissance artist and inventor who, at about age thirty, began writing his famous notebooks which contain the outpourings of his amazing mind.

Da Vinci

2003
An illustrated biography of Leonardo da Vinci, discussing his early life, his training as an artist, his many unfinished projects, and his advanced thinking on a variety of topics including flight and weaponry.

Leonardo da Vinci

2005
Presents a brief biography of fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance painter, Leonardo da Vinci, and describes his life and his many works of art.

Leonardo's shadow, or, My astonishing life as Leonardo da Vinci's servant

2006
Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting, "The Last Supper," while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.

Leonardo's notebooks

2005
Presents a comprehensive collection of the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci that includes a number of his writings and drawings of the human anatomy, architecture, mechanical inventions, and more.

The Da Vinci code

2004
Investigating the murder of a Louvre curator, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu find clues painted into a Da Vinci work, inadvertently uncovering a plot involving the Holy Grail and the secret society known as the Priory of Sion.

Leonardo da Vinci

genius of art and science
2005
Examines the life of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, discussing his inquiries and accomplishments in art and various fields of science.

Leonardo

1998
Presents sixty-three annotated plates of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings and sketches--commenting on the pieces' history, context, and current condition--along with biographical text.

The smile

2009
A fictionalized biography that describes the life of Elisabetta, the woman who posed for Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the Mona Lisa.

Leonardo da Vinci

2006
Looks at the life and work of artist Leonardo da Vinci, in simple text with illustrations, providing information about his childhood, his education, and his accomplishments as an artist.

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