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Leonardo da Vinci

2005
A biography of Leonardo da Vinci focusing on his scientific rather than his artistic work.

The Da Vinci code

a novel
2003
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.

Who stole Mona Lisa?

2010
Mona Lisa discusses her life in the homes and palaces of artists and kings, and as the object of admiration by visitors to see her at the Louve in Paris, tells of her time in the hands of a thief, and shares the secret of why she smiles.

Neo Leo

the ageless ideas of Leonardo da Vinci
2009
Looks at the ideas of fifteenth-century artist, inventor, engineer, and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, and shows how some of his drawings and descriptions inspired later inventions such as hang gliders, automobiles, and robots.

Leonardo da Vinci

a nonfiction companion to Magic tree house #38: Monday with a mad genius
2011

Da wild, da crazy, da Vinci

2004
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

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.

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