A sequel to ANGELS & DEMONS, THE DA VINCI CODE starts off with a bang and doesn't quit, leaving the reader gasping to keep up with the twists and turns of this amazingly popular academic thriller. The naked, spread-eagled corpse of a senior curator is found in the Louvre's Grand Gallery, next to a mysterious message written in his blood. The ...
Jack and Annie travel to Italy in the Renaissance, a time when every new morning brought with it the promise of artistic and scientific wonder. There, they meet none other than Leonardo da Vinci. This edition includes all-new back matter full of activities. Illustrations.
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
Enhanced with 50 sepia-toned illustrations and drawing on an examination of over 6,000 pages of Leonardo Da Vincis surviving notebooks, "The Science of Leonardo" explains that Da Vinci approached scientific knowledge through the eyes of an artist.
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts includes writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates plus over 500 additional drawings.
Five brief lectures delivered over five consecutive days in 1909 to audiences at Clark College, Massachusetts. Speaking extemporaneously, and in German, Freud presents one of the first public expositions of his new science. The lectures were written down upon his return to Vienna.
"Leonardo's Swans" is the story of the powerful Este sisters, Beatrice, Duchess of Milan, and Isabella, Marchesa of Mantua, as they compete for the affections of Italy's most influential prince, the Duke of Milan, and for the larger prize, to be immortalized in oil by his court painter and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci.
"Math and the Mona Lisa" sees the transcendent unity of art and science in almost every aspect of Da Vinci's life and work. Atalay delves deeply into the underlying mathematics and aesthetics of science and art, paying special attention to the mathematical sequence called the Fibonacci series.
Combining the original coded notebooks and modern computer imaging, over 30 of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions are pieced together in this work, in never-before-seen, mechanically accurate, computer generated artworks. Annotated diagrams show each working part of the contraptions, demonstrating in incredible detail how the machines would have ...
Leonardo da Vinci always dreamed of sculpting a horse in motion--made of bronze and standing three times larger than any living horse. Although he never realized his dream, 500 years after da Vinci's death, an enterprising American, Charles Dent, resolved to make the dream come true. Illustrations. Die cut.
Already an international phenomenon, this riveting novel from a bestselling author in the Spanish-speaking world depicts a deadly game of wits between the brilliant but religiously suspect Leonardo Da Vinci and a Dominican inquisitor who is intent on bringing him to trial for heresy.
Following the absolutely superb (Diane Haeger, author of "The Secret Bride") "Mademoiselle Boleyn," novelist Maxwell delves into the life of Caterina--the adventurer, alchemist, and mother of Leonardo da Vinci.
Milan, 1497. The height of the Renaissance. And for Giacomo, servant of the famous painter Leonardo da Vinci, it's the most difficult time of all. His Master has been working on the "Last Supper," his greatest painting ever, for nearly two years. But has he finished it? He's barely started! The all-powerful Duke of Milan is demanding that it be ...
Scotti's riveting, ingeniously realized account of the 1911 theft of the "Mona Lisa" and its aftermath is a masterful portrait of a world in transition, transforming itself into the modern while enjoying a last carefree fling before the onset of war.
A compilation of da Vinci's most fascinating studies, this monumental volume demystifies his insights and clearly illustrates his ideas, experiments, and observations with hundreds of his original sketches, line drawings, and paintings.
"Leonardo's Universe" demystifies DaVinci's insights. Books have been written about Leonardo's notebooks, his paintings, his ideas, and his genius, but none has synthesized his relationship with art and science in such a richly illustrated, informative format. Every page of this book resonates with Leonardo's genius. Special diagrams drawn by the ...
This fascinating exploration of Leonardo's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of one of the world's most celebrated artistic geniuses who, five hundred years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offers us exceptional insights into the mind of this exemplary Renaissance man, and into the ...
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts includes writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates plus over 500 additional drawings.
This selection reveals a true Renaissance man, whose habit of rigorous enquiry, observation, and experiment, grounded in a philosophic system, led him to conceive of the universe as an organized cosmos corresponding to a work of art.
This work presents the fascinating, untold story of an 88-day visit that forever changed America, and the unofficial ambassador behind it. In December 1962, Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" set sail from Paris to New York for what was arguably the riskiest art exhibition ever mounted. The fragile icon travelled like a head of state, with armed guards and ...
This illustrated biography takes readers into the life of the Renaissance-era artist, sculptor, and inventor. Beginning with da Vinci's humble origins as the illegitimate son of a wealthy man, this book explores da Vinci's early life and his first experiences as an artist. Later, readers will learn how da Vinci's extensive notebooks reveal how he ...
- Sci-fi author Mike Resnick has won more awards than Ray Bradbury or Isaac Asimov - Leonardo da Vinci, star of the best-selling The Da Vinci Code, is hot - Time travel, adventure, humor--Lady with an Alien is an Art Encounters tour de force! "Lady with an Ermine," Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of a patron's mistress holding the symbol of her ...
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