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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.