da vinci

Presents step-by-step instructions for making nineteen of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions, including a perspectograph, camera obscura, hydrometer, safety bridge, walk-on-water shoes, and--miniature versions of--his helicopter and tank, and provides background on each.

In their latest time travel adventure, Fred, Joe, and Sam meet Leonardo da Vinci and try to avoid becoming toilet scrubbers in a sixteenth-century Italian army.

Leonardo da Vinci was the living spirit of the Renaissance. He was its unconfined genius, years ahead of rivals, restless, erratic, pulling his generation headlong into the moder age. This book offers a fascinating study of Leonardo's universal genius, assembling a body of achievement which, even today, is viewed with wonder.

Digby and his sister Hannah find Leonardo Da Vinci's palette in Mr. Rummage's stall at an antiques market. Mr. Rummage tells them the story of Da Vinci's life.

Explains some basic techniques of Da Vinci by analyzing several of his better-known paintings.

An exploration of the creation of "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci, discussing his insecurities, frustrations, models, religious beliefs, and more and examining the political and religious turmoil of the time.

A chronological discussion of Leonardo da Vinci's insights surrounding topics such as architecture, botany, and philosophy, with illustrations and an examination of his attention to proportion, shape, patterns,and symmetries, and his relation to art and science.

Describes the career of fifteenth-century painter Leonardo da Vinci, and presents and briefly discusses more than thirty of his masterpieces.

Tells the life story of fourteenth-century artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, studying various examples and aspects of his work as well as the major artistic and cultural developments of his time.