| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. |
| Description |
xii, 599 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-570) and index. |
| Summary |
"Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's ... 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 we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
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Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. (OCoLC)fst00033122
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Artists -- Italy -- Biography.
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Scientists -- Italy -- Biography.
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Gifted persons -- Italy -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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Artists. (OCoLC)fst00817559
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Gifted persons. (OCoLC)fst00942618
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Scientists. (OCoLC)fst01108895
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Italy. (OCoLC)fst01204565
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
1501139169 (paperback) |
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9781501139161 (paperback) |
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