Inventions - Pop-up Models from the Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci(Pevná vazba)

Inventions - Pop-up Models from the Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci(Pevná vazba)

A spectacular gift book for children interested in how things

Leonardo. The Complete Paintings and Drawings - Frank Zöllner, Johannes Nathan

For the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, this updated edition of our XL title provides the most comprehensive survey of the life and work of the master painter, sculptor, architect, and inventor. The catalogue raisonné of paintings covers both surviving and lost works, while

Leonardo Pop-Ups (Watson McCarthy Courtney)(Pevná vazba)

A one-of-a-kind book of pop-ups based on the works of Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was a painter, architect, inventor and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term ‘Renaissance man’. Today he remains best

Leonardo Da Vinci: The 100 Milestones (Kemp Martin)(Pevná vazba)

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master's milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small Tuscan town of Vinci in April 1452. Over the

The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo Da Vinci to Susan Sontag (Burke Peter)(Paperback)

From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present 'An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history.'—Kirkus Reviews'An admirable mixture of industry and erudition.'—Robert Wilson, Wall Street Journal From Leonardo Da

The Real Leonardo Da Vinci (Sgueglia Rose)(Pevná vazba)

Leonardo Da Vinci was left-handed.That's probably why he wrote backwards from right to left to avoid smudging ink on his hand as he made notes on his latest works and visionary discoveries.Words could only be read with the help of a mirror making it taxing for anyone but himself to quickly decode

Leonardo - Frank Zöllner

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a mastermind and innovator who anticipated some of the greatest discoveries of human progress, sometimes

Impossible Inventions: Ideas That Shouldn't Work (Mycielska Malgorzata)(Pevná vazba)

A funky and fascinating collection of ideas, patents, and plans. When Leonardo da Vinci, over five hundred years ago, invented the tank, car, helicopter, glider, parachute, submarine, elevator, and telescope, he was considered a dreamer. Or even crazy. Today he is understood to be a genius, ahead

Leonardo Da Vinci - Little Guides to Great Lives (Thomas Isabel)(Pevná vazba)

Most famous as the painter who created the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci is also one of history's greatest geniuses - he was a mathematician, architect, astronomer, scientist and musician... and he even invented the helicopter!From artists to aviators and scientists to revolutionaries, Little Guides

Leonardo Da Vinci (Cashin John)(Pevná vazba)

The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci: A New Translation (Vasari Giorgio)(Pevná vazba)

A new translation of Georgio Vasari’s Life of Leonardo da Vinci, illustrated for the first time, and edited by one of the world’s leading Leonardo scholars Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1569) is a classic of cultural history. A

Biographic Leonardo (Kirk Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Many people know that Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath, one of the great creative minds of the Italian Renaissance and the painter of the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his original notebook Codex Leicester, was sold to Bill Gates for $30

Leonardo Da Vinci: Self Art and Nature (Quiviger Franois)(Pevná vazba)

This incisive and illuminating biography follows the three themes that shaped the life of Leonardo da Vinci and, through him, forever changed Western art and imagination: nature, art, and self-fashioning. Nature and art helped form Leonardo. He spent his first twelve years in the Tuscan

Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings in Detail (Vezzosi Alessandro)(Pevná vazba)

Shedding new light on the renowned Renaissance artist, this book examines all of da Vinci's known paintings using recent advances in technology and the latest art historical research. While Leonardo da Vinci is one of history's most studied and renowned artists, there are many myths surrounding his

The Wonders of Florence (Cestaro Dario)(Pevná vazba)

The first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro's spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city's history with straightforward texts and interesting facts. This fascinating journey in colored pages shaped into Florence's most

Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last.As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience

Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends (Stabler David)(Pevná vazba)

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci, Beatrix Potter, Keith Haring, and other great artists in history coped with regular-kid problems. Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless

Danzig Baldaev: Drawings from the Gulag (Baldaev Danzig)(Pevná vazba)

Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's father, a respected ethnographer, taught him

Leonardo Da Vinci (Hodge Susie)(Paperback)

Exploring the life and works of the great artist, World's Greatest Art: Da Vinci considers the achievements of Italy's most well-known and influential artist. The book follows his artistic development, from early drawings and paintings while apprentice to artist Andrea del Verrocchio, to his later

Measure of a Man - A Novel about Leonardo da Vinci (Malvaldi Marco)(Paperback / softback)

A compelling and impeccably researched Renaissance thriller, with Leonardo da Vinci in the sleuthing

Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius (Shlain Leonard)(Paperback)

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his

Leonardo Da Vinci (Isaacson Walter)(Paperback / softback)

He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? 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

Artists' Letters: Leonardo Da Vinci to David Hockney (Bird Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing unique insight into their characters and a glimpse into their lives. Artists' Letters is a collection of intriguing, entertaining, moving, significant, surprising, witty and insightful correspondence from great

Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master (Da Vinci Leonardo)(Paperback)

Leonardo's Notebooks is a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man -- is a perennial source of fascination. His