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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
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English
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"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"--
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Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
597 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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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
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"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...
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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.
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English
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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.
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
On the 500th anniversary of da Vinci's death, NOVA goes to Italy to explore his life and work. Then, in the basement of the Louvre, scientists and art restoration experts deploy cutting-edge technology to (digitally) peel back the layers of da Vinci's works. Ultimately, they'll reveal the impact of his science on his art and his art on his science.
9) Una Visita guiada a la obra de Leonardo da Vinci =: A guided visit to the work of Leonardo da Vinci
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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.)
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English
10) Finding Fibonacci: the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world
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English
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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...
13) The inventor
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Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci left Italy to join the French court, where he could experiment freely, inventing flying contraptions, and incredible machines, and study the human body. There, joined in his adventure by the audacious princess Marguerite, Leonardo will uncover the answer to the ultimate question "What is the meaning of it all?"
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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.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Destruction was not his design. After a long and disastrous personal quest, it's a slow, painful rebirth for Leonardo Da Vinci as he comes to the realization that his greatest enemy is himself. After travelling from Florence to South America and back in his relentless search for the fabled Book of Leaves, Florence is in ruins and dear friends have recently been buried. Da Vinci now must rebuild himself, as well as his beloved city, just as the Turks...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (149 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[c2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leonardo da Vinci's The Battle of Anghiari vanished 500 years ago, with only copies rendered by other artists left behind to confirm its existence. Scientist and art enthusiast Maurizio Seracini, has dedicated 36 years to tracking down the missing mural, and seems to be on the verge of uncovering the hidden fresco behind the walls of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy.--Container.
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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.
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