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Leonardo da Vinci
SKU
012109
ISBN
9781887840316
Grade 5-8
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Description
This biography about Leonardo is interesting and well written. It shares the details of his life from the time of his boyhood in Vinci, Italy, to his death 67 years later. Though Leonardo produced many famous paintings, his achievements spread far beyond the world of art. He studied astronomy, botany, anatomy, and geology, and was a great inventor as well. The author brings this ideal Renaissance man to life in this easy to read biography. Several black/white sketches illustrate the book. 181 pgs. ~ Rachel
Publisher's Description of Leonardo da Vinci
The people of Florence roared with laughter over the news. Imagine a man trying to build a flying machine! The same poor fellow had tried to invent a diving suit, they said, and a ship that would sail under water. Surely this was the craziest man in all Florence!
That was 500 years ago, and the man was Leonardo da Vinci whom we now know as one of the most creative minds in all history. True, he left very little evidence of his genius—a few paintings, a few pieces of sculpture, plans for a great statue that was never finished, and a number of notebooks filled with sketches and scribblings.
Yet one of those paintings, "The Last Supper," attracts more visitors than almost any work of art in the world. Another, "Mona Lisa," has kept art critics talking for 450 years.
And the notebooks of Leonardo have told us how he explored one subject after another—the flight of birds, the nature of sound, the travel of light—so that he might understand the way things work and by what principles they are governed.
As you read Emily Hahn's Leonardo da Vinci, you realize it was this magnificent curiosity that created the adventure of Leonardo's life—an adventure that makes exciting reading even today.
Details
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Brand: | Avyx |
| Author: | Hahn |
| Grades: | 5-8 |
| ISBN: | 9781887840316 |
| Length in Inches: | 8.375 |
| Width in Inches: | 5.375 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.4375 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.55 |
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