Presents a comprehensive examination of the career of fifteen-century Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Leonardo da Vinci and discusses his works, relationships, and views on God and nature as it is revealed in the drawings and notes of his discoveries and inventions.
When the Mona Lisa is stolen, Jack Stalwart, a secret agent with the Global Protection Force, must find it before it leaves the country and is never seen again.
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.
inside the mind of the great genius of the Renaissance
Capra, Fritjof
2007
The author draws upon the thousands of surviving documents to examine the science and art of Leonardo da Vinci including his understanding of weights and levers, the flight patterns of birds to create prototypes of flying machines, his designs for military weapons, and other scientific discoveries.
Surveys the life and work of Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci; provides analyses of his masterpieces; discusses the historical and social context in which da Vinci worked; and includes over three hundred color reproductions of his paintings, sculptures, and inventions.
Reproductions of 100 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci which are part of the Windsor Castle collection showing the wide range of interests and ideas held by the artist.
Combines work from Leonardo da Vinci's original coded notebooks with modern computer imaging to piece together more than thirty of Leonardo's mechanical inventions.
Discusses the work, dreams, and wild inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, as seen through the eyes of his mischievous young assistant, Giacomo. Incorporates some of da Vinci's own words and sketches.
