Author: Claire Farago
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: leonardo, vinci, projects
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0815329350
ISBN-13: 9780815329350

Also available as the third book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)

Author: Claire Farago
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: leonardo, vinci, projects, career, overview
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 0815329342
ISBN-13: 9780815329343

Also available as the second book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)

Authors:Serge Bramly, Leonardo Da Vinci,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: man, artist, leonardo
Number of Pages: 493
Published: 1995-03-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0140231757
ISBN-13: 9780140231755

First published in France, Serge Bramly’s acclaimed biography reveals Leonardo to be as complicated, seductive, and profoundly sympathetic as the figures he painted. Bramly spent five years gathering evidence to reconstruct the artist’s life--from his early years as an illegitimate child to his death in the arms of the King of France. Four pages of color photographs; 75 B&W photos.

Authors:Leonardo da Vinci, Richard A. Turner,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: leonardo, inventing
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1994-10-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0520089383
ISBN-13: 9780520089389

As he examines the changing views of Leonardo since the sixteenth century, A. Richard Turner both gives the reader a cultural history in brief of western Europe during this period and provides a context for examining Leonardo’s relevance to our own ways of perceiving and interpreting the world.

Authors:Leonardo da Vinci, H. Anna Suh,
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Keywords: notebooks, leonardo
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1579124577
ISBN-13: 9781579124571

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed arguably the greatest mind the world has ever known. Artist, draftsman, inventor, and philosopher, his contributions to modern society are profound and wide-reaching. Throughout his life, Leonardo kept dozens of notebooks, elegant studies on topics ranging from architecture to botany to philosophy—indeed nearly anything of which the human imagination could conceive. Leonardo’s Notebooks collects a variety of the most fascinating of these studies and compiles them into one monumental volume that demystifies his insights and clearly illustrates his id

Author: Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: world, classics, oxford, notebooks, vinci, leonardo
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-05-11
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0199299021
ISBN-13: 9780199299027

Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist’s eye and a scientist’s curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He jotted down fables, epigrams, and letters and developed his belief in the sublime unity of nature and man. Through his notebooks we can get an insight into Leonardo’s though

Authors:Leonardo da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter,
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: volume, vinci, leonardo, notebooks
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 1970-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0486225720
ISBN-13: 9780486225722

Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts reveal full range of Leonardo’s versatile genius: his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates and faithful reproductions of more than 500 additional drawings.