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Publisher:
Leapfrog Press
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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Jem's father, a scientific genius, turns himself into a nine-foot orangutan. When their landlord suggests that they leave, they pack their belongings onto a huge wagon and set out on the ultimate adventure: to find the last resting place of Leonardo da Vinci, who, according to his last notebook, may not have died in Italy. They are joined by an old Indian woman, and the threesome's adventures lead to the most unlikely of places--and meetings. Tidbits...
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Publisher:
Leonardo Guiliani
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
Relationships are at the heart of what makes us human. They provide us with love, support, and a sense of belonging in this world. But navigating the ups and downs of relationships can be challenging. That's why this book was written. It's your ultimate guide to creating and maintaining healthy relationships in all aspects of your life. With scientifically-backed insights, motivational stories, and practical strategies, you'll discover the secrets...
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English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"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 and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills...
Publisher:
PBS
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
The film will tell the story of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, best known as Leonardo da Vinci, a fifteenth century Italian polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, who left behind artistic works of staggering beauty and detailed sketches of futuristic contraptions of warfare and flight that today are marveled at for their technical ingenuity and foresight. From his birth out of wedlock to a notary and peasant woman and apprenticeship...
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English
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Shows many of Da Vinci's triumphs, including the creation of The last supper and the Mona Lisa, and some of his bitter defeats including the crash-landing of his flying machine, as well as the bitterness of his rivalry with Michelangelo. DVD extras include a look at the rise of Renaissance Italy, Leonardo's masterpiece paintings and inventions, a look at the works and contrasting styles of Da Vinci and Michelangelo, including a timeline.
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English
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Tightly paced and atmospheric, The Secret Supper is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both Leonardo Da Vinci's genius and his masterpiece -- which you will never look at in the same way again. Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling -- and blasphemous -- message that he is driven to decode. The Holy Grail...
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"Remember to the last, that while there is life there is hope." Onboard the ship The Golden Mary we meet a dignified woman in black, a man who wants to try his luck in the gold rush in California, a mother and her daughter heading to meet the father, and of course Captain Ravender, a great believer in duty before self. When the ship is struck by an iceberg and sinks, the crew and passengers are moved to lifeboats. But they are still far from safety....
12. Michelangelo
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Publisher:
Parkstone International
Language:
English
Description:
Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes...
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Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated for his consummate genius. He was the painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and the inventor who anticipated the advent of airplanes, hot air balloons, and other technological marvels. But what was the connection between Leonardo the painter and Leonardo the scientist? Historians of Renaissance art have long supposed that Leonardo became increasingly interested in science as he grew older...
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Publisher:
Apollo Publishers
Pub. Date:
©2019
Language:
English
Description:
"The traditional view of Leonardo da Vinci's career is that he enjoyed a promising start in Florence and then moved to Milan to become the celebrated court artist of Duke Ludovico Sforza. Young Leonardo proves all of this wrong. It reveals how the struggling painter was repeatedly snubbed by the prevailing trends of Florentine style before escaping to Milan empty-handed. But Milan offered little more; Sforza's patronage was lukewarm, to say the least,...
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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For the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death comes an immersive journey through five centuries of history to define the Leonardo mystique and uncover how the elusive Renaissance artist became a global pop icon. Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art: a realism based on subtle shading; depth...
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Publisher:
Mitchell Lane
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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Inventor, artist, scientist . . . Leonardo da Vinci's wide-ranging inquisitiveness was the source of his greatest accomplishments and his lifelong financial difficulties, he would get bored quickly and rarely finish his projects. As an artist, only seventeen of his finished works survive, and yet they include two of the most famous paintings in the world: The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. His scientific studies of human anatomy were centuries ahead...
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During the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci studied math, mapmaking, geography, and more. However, he may be best known as a painter and sculptor. The Mona Lisa remains a famous painting that is studied by art students and historians alike. Readers are introduced to this well-known work as well as The Last Supper and The Virgin of the Rocks. Da Vinci's biography and influence are discussed throughout, supported by famous quotes and full-color photographs...
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Will Lily and Leonardo end up giving their hearts to the wrong person? Still reeling following her malicious sacking, family therapist Lily Rose is feeling rejected and low in spirits. Even worse, she's broke. The last thing she needs is more money woes. Which is exactly what happens when she collides with billionaire water magnate Leonardo Ermenegildo Bressolini's mint-condition Lamborghini. Having found a place to retreat from the madness and greed...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Leonardo's Handwriting is a romantic morality tale, with an unconventional woman at its heart. Nature has given the heroine, Anna, the gift of clairvoyance, and it is this that determines her singular fate. The characteristic "left-handed mirror handwriting", which in psychology came to be known as "Leonardo's handwriting" (since that's how the Renaissance genius wrote his notes), simply adds to the "weirdness" both of Anna's personality and the twists...