Leonardo Da Vinci : The Biography

'To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable. Walter Isaacson is at once a true scholar and a spellbi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walter Isaacson
Format: Printed Book
Published: London Simon & Schuster 2017
Subjects:
Leonardo, > da Vinci, > 1452-1519. Leonardo > da Vinci > 1452-1519 Artists > Italy > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Main Characters
  • Currency in Italy in 1500
  • Note regarding the cover
  • Primary periods of Leonardo's life
  • Timeline ;
  • Introduction: I can also paint ;
  • 1. Childhood
  • 2. Apprentice
  • 3. On his own
  • 4. Milan
  • 5. Leonardo's notebooks
  • 6. Court entertainer
  • 7. Personal life
  • 8. Vitruvian Man
  • 9. The horse monument
  • 10. Scientist
  • 11. Birds and flight
  • 12. The mechanical arts
  • 13. Math
  • 14. The nature of man
  • 15. Virgin of the Rocks
  • 16. The Milan portraits
  • 17. The science of art
  • 18. The Last Supper
  • 19. Personal turmoil
  • 20. Florence again
  • 21. Saint Anne
  • 22. Paintings lost and found
  • 23. Cesare Borgia
  • 24. Hydraulic engineer
  • 25. Michelangelo and the lost Battles
  • 26. Return to Milan
  • 27. Anatomy, round two
  • 28. The world and its waters
  • 29. Rome
  • 30. Pointing the way
  • 31. The Mona Lisa
  • 32. France
  • 33. Conclusion ;
  • Coda: Describe the tongue of the woodpecker.

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