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  1. Leonardo Da Vinci the Artist, Second Edition by Ludwig Goldscheider, 1944
  2. Leonardo da Vinci (The great artists) by Jean Paul, 1895
  3. The life of Leonardo da Vinci (Artists' library) by Giorgio Vasari, 1903
  4. ART: The Revealing Experience [Beautiful Art Book with Color and Black and White Pictures of Famous Artists Like Leonardo Da Vinci, Umberto Boccioni and Lots More] by Kurt Kranz, 1964
  5. Leonardo Da Vinci (The Great Artists)
  6. Leonardo Da Vinci (Famous Artists) by Mike Venezia, 1997-05-29
  7. Leonardo: The Artist and the Man by SergeBramly, Leonardo Da Vinci, 1995-03-01
  8. Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities (For Kids series) by Janis Herbert, 1998-10-01
  9. Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? (Who Was...?) by Roberta Edwards, 2005-09-08
  10. Leonardo Da Vinci on the Human Body by O'Malley, 2003-11-04
  11. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford World's Classics) by Leonardo da Vinci, 1999-01-28
  12. Leonardo da Vinci by Sherwin Nuland, 2004-12-28
  13. Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, and Design by Martin Kemp, 2006-10-02
  14. Leonardo da Vinci on Plants and Gardens (History and Ethno- and Economic Botany Series, Vol 1) by William A. Emboden, 1987-02-01

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62. Leonardo Da Vinci - The Last Supper
leonardo da vinci The Last Supper. I am your Guide, From Shelley Esaak, Your Guide to Art History. Ten Common Questions About the Painting.
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63. Leonardo Da Vinci: The True Renaissance Man
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  • Gather information about the artist by visiting the Leonardo da Vinci sites listed. Create a PowerPoint presentation with at least seven slides of information that follow the questions below. Present your PowerPoint presentation to the class. Create a three-dimensional project reflecting one of Leonardo's ideas.

The Process Visit the following web sites and take notes that answer the questions listed. You might want to save some graphics to include in your presentation about the artist.
  • Collect general biographical information about Leonardo da Vinci that tells about when he lived, where he lived, how he got started in his profession, etc. Gather facts that will fit well as your introduction to the artist.
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  • What types of inventions did Leonardo conceive of hundreds of years before their time?
  • 64. MSN Encarta - Leonardo Da Vinci
    leonardo da vinci (14521519), Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and
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    News Search MSNBC for news about Leonardo da Vinci Internet Search Search Encarta about Leonardo da Vinci Search MSN for Web sites about Leonardo da Vinci Also on Encarta Editor's picks: Good books about Iraq Compare top online degrees What's so funny? The history of humor Also on MSN Summer shopping: From grills to home decor D-Day remembered on Discovery Switch to MSN in 3 easy steps Our Partners Capella University: Online degrees LearnitToday: Computer courses CollegeBound Network: ReadySetGo Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions Encyclopedia Article from Encarta Advertisement Leonardo da Vinci Multimedia 10 items Article Outline Introduction Early Life in Florence Years in Milan Return to Florence ... Scientific and Theoretical Projects I Introduction Print Preview of Section Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies—particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics—anticipated many of the developments of modern science.

    65. Leonardo De Vinci
    His father was Ser Piero da vinci, and his mother At an early age, leonardo showed many extraordinary talents time, I was the leading Florentine artist, and one
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    Good morrow, my name is Andrea del Verrocchio, and I was Leonardo de Vinci's first teacher. I am here, on my deathbed, to tell you a little about Leonardo's life and accomplishments during his career.
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    Leonardo was born near the little town of Vinci, Italy, which is very close to Florence, on April 15, 1452. His father was Ser Piero da Vinci, and his mother was a local peasant girl named Caterina. When young Leonardo was only one year old, his father married another woman, and his mother married a peasant man and disappeared. At an early age, Leonardo showed many extraordinary talents. He was very interested in just about everything around him. He was said to have confused his math teachers with his questions, played the lute and sung with great talent, and above all, was incredibly good at drawing.
    At the time, I was the leading Florentine artist, and one of his father's good friends. After taking one look at Leonardo's breathtaking drawings, I offered him a job as an apprentice at my studio. At this time Leonardo was about 15 years old, and I was working on a project of great prestige. This project was making the gilded copper globe that tops the Florence Cathedral, the building that is the pride and joy of the Florentines. I kept Leonardo very busy doing common apprentice jobs, from preparing materials to help paint pictures. I noticed that he did these with extreme gift, and that he was much more capable then any of my other apprentices. Soon I noticed that Leonardo's talent was so great, I would never be able to match his painting talents. I gave up painting and concentrated on sculptures, certain that I was making the right career move.

    66. The Metropolitan Museum Of Art - Special Exhibitions: Leonardo Da Vinci, Master
    Even in an era of boundless scientific discovery and technological invention, and of sublime artistic and humanistic achievement, leonardo da vinci (1452–1519
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    67. The Da Vinci Code » Book Reviews » Official Website Of Dan Brown
    You will never look at a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist leonardo da vinci the same way again. NASHVILLE CITY PAPER. A real pageturner .
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    68. Leonardo Da Vinci: Italian Inventor - EnchantedLearning.com
    leonardo da vinci Italian Inventor. leonardo da vinci (14521519) was an Italian inventor, artist, architect, and scientist. Become
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    Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian inventor, artist, architect, and scientist. Da Vinci had an interest in engineering and made detailed sketches of:
    • the airplane
    • the helicopter and other flying machines
    • the parachute
    • the submarine
    • the armored car
    • the ballista (a giant crossbow)
    • rapid-fire guns, the centrifugal pump (designed to drain wet areas, like marshes)
    • ball bearings
    • contact lenses
    • the worm gear (a set of gears in which many teeth make contact at once, reducing the strain on the teeth, allowing more pressure to be put on the mechanism),
    • and many other incredible ideas that were centuries ahead of da Vinci's time.

    Leonardo was born in Vinci, Italy (near Florence). Early in life, he studied with the artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. During the years 1483-1499, da Vinci worked for the Duke of Milan, inventing mechanical devices for use in warfare and defense. He also designed canals, bridges, cathedrals, and other buildings. After studying optics, proportion, anatomy, and perspective, da Vinci wrote "Treatise on Painting," published in 1551. For some da Vinci art coloring pages, click here

    69. The My Hero Project - Leonardo Da Vinci
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    70. Paper Dolls: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Artist And His Model
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    71. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Leonardo Da Vinci
    is the botanist, the geologist, the anatomist or the artist who interests a Bramante, or a Dürer, is never more brilliantly evident than in leonardo da vinci.
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    (LEONARDO DI SER PIERO DA VINCI) Florentine painter sculptor architect , engineer, and scholar, and one of the greatest minds of the Renaissance ; born at Vinci, near Florence , in 1452; died at Cloux, near Amboise, France , 2 May, 1519, natural son of Ser Piero, a notary , and a peasant woman . He was reared carefully by his father, and was remarkably gifted and precocious. Few artists owed so little to circumstances and teachers. He was quite self-made. His work was small in bulk, and what remains may be counted on fingers of both hands. Few men had such varied talent and amassed such encyclopedic knowledge ; his method as an artist was original with him, science was the measure of beauty, he combined fact with poetry and made use of both to carry on wide investigations in nature and to reproduce life according to the very laws of life. There are three periods in Leonardo's biography: The Florentine period (1469-82); the Milanese period (1483-99); the Nomadic period (1500-19). I. THE ARTIST

    72. Leonardo Da Vinci. The Last Supper. - Olga's Gallery
    More. Unknown artist of the XVI century. Copy after leonardo s Last Supper. Oil on canvas. da vinci Museum, Tongerio. the Netherlands.
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    Leonardo da Vinci. The Last Supper. c.1495-1498. Oil and tempera on plaster. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Refectory, Milan, Italy. More.
    Unknown artist of the XVI century. Copy after Leonardo's Last Supper. Oil on canvas. Da Vinci Museum, Tongerio. the Netherlands. This copy, almost as large as the original, displays a wealth of detail, which is no longer visible in the Leonardo's wall-painting due to the extensive damage it has suffered.
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    73. TASCHEN Books: Art - New Titles - Leonardo Da Vinci - The Complete Paintings And
    The authors Professor Frank Zöllner wrote his doctoral theses on artistic and architectural theory (1987) and leonardo da vinci (1996).
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    Da Vinci in detail: Leonardo's life and work - the definitive edition. All pictures, all drawings!
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    Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes.
    * Part I explores Leonardo's life and work in ten chapters, drawing upon his letters, contracts, diary entries, and writings. All of his paintings are presented and interpreted in depth, with The Annunciation and The Last Supper featured on large double-spreads.
    * Part II comprises a of Leonardo's paintings , which covers all of his surviving and lost painted works and includes texts describing their states of preservation. Each and every painting that can be justifiably attributed to Leonardo is included here; thanks to new findings and scientific research, this is the first time his definitive painting oeuvre is being published.

    74. TASCHEN Books: Art - Reading Room - The Artist And Science (1)
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    75. Leonardo Da Vinci
    seem unusual to include leonardo da vinci in a list of paleontologists and evolutionary biologists. leonardo was and is best known as an artist, the creator of
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    L eonardo da V inci (1452-1519) It may seem unusual to include Leonardo da Vinci in a list of paleontologists and evolutionary biologists. Leonardo was and is best known as an artist, the creator of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa Madonna of the Rocks , and The Last Supper . Yet Leonardo was far more than a great artist: he had one of the best scientific minds of his time. He made painstaking observations and carried out research in fields ranging from architecture and civil engineering to astronomy to anatomy and zoology to geography, geology and paleontology. In the words of his biographer Giorgio Vasari: The most heavenly gifts seem to be showered on certain human beings. Sometimes supernaturally, marvelously, they all congregate in one individual. . . . This was seen and acknowledged by all men in the case of Leonardo da Vinci, who had. . . an indescribable grace in every effortless act and deed. His talent was so rare that he mastered any subject to which he turned his attention. . . . He might have been a scientist if he had not been so versatile. Leonardo's scientific and technical observations are found in his handwritten manuscripts, of which over 4000 pages survive, including the one pictured on the right, showing some rock formations (click on it to view an enlargement). It seems that Leonardo planned to publish them as a great encyclopedia of knowledge, but like many of his projects, this one was never finished. The manuscripts are difficult to read: not only did Leonardo write in mirror-image script from right to left, but he used peculiar spellings and abbreviations, and his notes are not arranged in any logical order. After his death his notes were scattered to libraries and collections all over Europe. While portions of Leonardo's technical treatises on painting were published as early as 1651, the scope and caliber of much of his scientific work remained unknown until the 19th century. Yet his geological and paleontological observations and theories foreshadow many later breakthroughs.

    76. Leonardo Da Vinci
    He was an illegitimate child of the Florentinenotary, Piero da vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina. He was a great artist. In his youth leonardo became an
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    78. Dribbleglass.com--The Lost Drawings Of Leonardo DiVinci
    In an astonishing turn of events, art historians have discovered a rare cache of drawings believed to have been penned by famed artist leonardo da vinci.
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    Leonardo da Vinci Recent news from Italy has rocked the art world to its very foundation. In an astonishing turn of events, art historians have discovered a rare cache of drawings believed to have been penned by famed artist Leonardo da Vinci. The drawings are testament to the fact that Leonardo was not only one of the greatest artists in history (famous for the Mona Lisa and The Last Brunch, among others), but he was also an inspired and prolific inventor. Prior to the discovery of the "lost" drawings, Leonardo was already credited with the invention of a number of items which endure todayincluding scissors, the parachute, machine gun and what is believed to be a primitive precursor to our modern-day helicopter. Here, for the first time, are reproductions of the lost drawings with a cursory analysis of their historic significance. This well-preserved image has startled even the most ardent aficionados of Leonardo's work. During Leonardo's time, the common sandal was the predominant form of footwear. But Italians clamored for a form of foot protection which would better serve them during their leisure timeusually spent at Italy's renowned beaches. Through trial and error, Leonardo seems to have developed what are now referred to as "flip-flops." While this type of footwear did not find widespread acceptance during Leonardo's lifetime, it is hard to imagine what our lives today would be like without them.

    79. Leonardo Da Vinci's Polyhedra
    leonardo da vinci s Polyhedra. leonardo da vinci (14521519) was the quintessential renaissance man artist, mathematician, scientist, and engineer.
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      Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was the quintessential renaissance man : artist, mathematician, scientist, and engineer. He was a great lover of geometry, and devoted much time to it starting in his early forties. His most outstanding polyhedral accomplishment is the illustrations for Luca Pacioli 's 1509 book The Divine Proportion . At right is one of the illustrations from that book. The term Ycocedron Abscisus in the title plaque means truncated icosahedron , and the term Vacuus refers to the fact that the faces are hollow. (The drawings are beautifully hand colored like this in the Ambrosiana manuscript, reprinted by Officina Bodoni, 1956, and also by Silvana Editoriale, 1982.) These are the first illustrations of polyhedra ever in the form of "solid edges." The solidity of the edges lets one easily see which edges belong to the front and which to the back, unlike simple line drawings where the front and back surfaces may be visually confused. Yet the hollow faces allow one to see through to the structure of the rear surface. This is a brilliant new form of geometric illustration, one worthy of Leonardo's genius for insightful graphic display of information. However, it is not clear whether Leonardo invented this new form or whether he was simply drawing from "life" a series of wooden models with solid edges which Pacioli designed. If Pacioli designed these models, then he deserves the credit for this new "solid edge" idea, but it is likely that Leonardo designed them.

    80. Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo Da Vinci
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