Leonardo

Draws from a study of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" by thirty-nine specialists that encompassed radiography, microfluorescence, ultraviolet and infrared examination, 3-D scanning, and other technologies and afforded insights into da Vinci's materials, techniques, and world.

Presents a comprehensive collection of the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci that includes a number of his writings and drawings of the human anatomy, architecture, mechanical inventions, and more.

A collection of sixty black-and-white reproductions of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.

Compiles the artist's advice to the painters who worked in his studio in Italy during the Renaissance.

Reproduces over 1200 of Leonardo's anatomical drawings, arranged in chronological sequence, with accompanying text.

Some of Leonardo da Vinci's thoughts on anatomy, motions and emotions, historical compositions, draperies, color, and landscapes are presented from his notebooks. Da Vinci's illustrations accompany text.