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The smile

2008
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue.

Amazing Leonardo da Vinci inventions you can build yourself

learn some hands-on history!
2006
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.

Da wild, da crazy, da Vinci

2006
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.

The life, times and art of Leonardo

1965
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.

Leonardo's palette

2008
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.

Leonardo da Vinci

1987
Explains some basic techniques of Da Vinci by analyzing several of his better-known paintings.

Leonardo and the Last Supper

2013
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.

Leonardo's universe

the Renaissance world of Leonardo da Vinci
2008
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.

Leonardo da Vinci

2005
Describes the career of fifteenth-century painter Leonardo da Vinci, and presents and briefly discusses more than thirty of his masterpieces.

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