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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It is the most famous painting in the world, created by the hand of a genius, marveled at by millions every year in the Louvre in Paris, but could there be a second Mona Lisa? In 1913, an interesting portrait surfaced, the so-called 'Isleworth Mona Lisa.' Using sophisticated scientific analysis, scientists will test both paintings to determine whether Leonardo da Vinci painted an earlier version of the iconic portrait.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text portray the life of Leonardo da Vinci, who gained fame as a artist through such works as the Mona Lisa, and as a scientist by studying various subjects including human anatomy and flight.
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Young thinkers explore the ideas of Leonardo Da Vinci through his notebook sketches, showing how his ideas foreshadowed modern inventions. Students construct, examine and explain simple machines to develop a deeper understanding of how they make work easier. KEVA planks build an early understanding of proportion and balance, while teaching basic principles of physics and engineering.
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, whose masterpieces include The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa. An acclaimed genius, Leonardo Da Vinci was also an architect, draftsman, engineer, inventor, mathematician, philosopher and visionary, whose research and studies contributed to many developments in modern day science. Da Vinci was ever prepared to call everything into question and reduce to ashes the...
Author
Series
Time warp trio volume no.14
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In their latest time travel adventure, Fred, Joe, and Sam da Brooklyn meet Leonardo da Vinci and try to avoid becoming toilet scrubbers in a sixteenth-century Italian army.
14) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci portrait known as the Mona Lisa, including its 1911 theft from the Louvre in Paris, from the point of view of the subject of the painting. Includes an author's note with facts about the painting.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
At the art museum, while her grandmother dozes, Katie steps into the painting of the Mona Lisa and together they have adventures with the characters from four other well-known Renaissance paintings. Includes informationabout the artists.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. 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 skills...
20) Da Vinci
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyzes some of his paintings. Reproductions of Leonardo's works are presented along with cartoon-style illustrations from the author that depict characters, often in humorous activities. The text is very simple & entertaining. Along with learning about Leonardo's life, readers are encouraged to look at details in his paintings. Part of the Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series.
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