Leonardo da Vinci
"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks...
| Main Author: | Isaacson, Walter (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Table of Contents:
- I can also paint
- Childhood
- Apprentice
- On his own
- Milan
- Leonardo's notebooks
- Court entertainer
- Personal life
- Vitruvian Man
- The horse monument
- Scientist
- Birds and flight
- The mechanical arts
- Math
- The nature of man
- Virgin of the Rocks
- The Milan portraits
- The science of art
- The Last Supper
- Personal turmoil
- Florence again
- Saint Anne
- Paintings lost and found
- Cesare Borgia
- Hydraulic engineer
- Michelangelo and the lost Battles
- Return to Milan
- Anatomy, round two
- The world and its waters
- Rome
- Pointing the way
- The Mona Lisa
- France
- Conclusion
- Coda. Describe the tongue of the woodpecker.