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Explore's Leonardo da Vinci's artistic and scientific achievements, and discusses what current brain research reveals about da Vinci's multifaceted genius.

A fictional biography of the work, dreams, and wild inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, as seen through the eyes of his mischievous young assistant, Giacomo. The king of France invited Leonardo to visit his country. Leonardo went, and took the painting of the Mona Lisa with him.

Text and photographs present the life and work of famed Italian artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance period.

Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyses some of his paintings.

In fifteenth-century Florence, the dashing Venetian ambassador commissions young Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his Platonic love, Ginevra de' Benci, a well-educated, teenaged poet in a passionless marriage, propelling her into the world of art, politics, and romance, with all of its complications.

Encourages the reader to keep track of the "Mona Lisa" after five thieves steal the famous painting from the Louvre in Paris.

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.

"Introduces the reader to the artist Leonardo da Vinci"--Provided by publisher.

Finally in a foster home with a caring family, Nard, a thirteen-year-old orphan with only one hand, invents a human-powered flying machine with the assistance of the 500-year-old hand of Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo da Vinci is remembered as a painter, an inventor, a scientist, an engineer, and an architect. This book examines his many contributions to the intellectual climate of the Renaissance in Italy while also tracing his legacy in inventions of the modern era, including the helicopter and military tank.