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Everybody knows the picture, a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeur of art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere, in books, on coffee cups, on corporate logos, even on spacecraft. It has, in short, become the world's most famous cultural...
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English
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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 universal genius--
3) 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
"A narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world-and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all"--
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
597 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
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English
Description
"August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
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.
8) Una Visita guiada a la obra de Leonardo da Vinci =: A guided visit to the work of Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher
Editorial Fonolibros de Colombia S.A
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm + 4 sound discs (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
9) Finding Fibonacci: the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world
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Language
English
Description
Keith Devlin is a mathematician at Stanford University and cofounder and president of BrainQuake, an educational technology company that creates mathematics learning video games. His many books include The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern. He is "the Math Guy" on National Public Radio. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
A compelling firsthand account of Keith Devlin's ten-year quest to...
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Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the life of Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, whose daydreaming as a young child led him to discover patterns in nature and the natural sequence that bears his name.
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English
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Separated by 500 years, two women--Anne Guichard, a young archivist at the Louvre, who at the dawn of WWII must keep treasures safe from the Nazis; and house servant, Bellina Sardi, who is tasked with keeping an impossible secret--each hide Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with unintended consequences.
16) The night gate
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Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
486 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between two murders, the Mona Lisa.
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Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and achievements of the Italian Renaissance artist, inventor, and engineer, tracing his early years and apprenticeship through the creations of such masterworks as "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa."
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 38
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel five hundred years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
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Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jackie Kennedy loved the arts. And America loved Jackie. The first lady knew she had the country's attention and she wanted to encourage Americans to appreciate art. This is the little-known story about how Jackie Kennedy brought the world's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa, to the United States"--
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