The text is lengthy for a picture book, but the illustrations are equally rich in detail.

This biography contains a wealth of information and is told in a story that blends Renaissance paintings and interesting facts about the artist. 3-6)Īward-winning author and illustrator, Diane Stanley, chronicles the life of the artist Leonardo Da Vinci from his birth to his death. 00-01 Land of Enchantment Book Award Masterlist (Gr. Young readers will come to appreciate both da Vinci's universally renowned accomplishments as a painter and the breadth of his scientific experimentation and research.A virtuosic work.'-Publishers Weekly. Drawing from a range of sources, including her subject's extensive notebooks, Stanley's conversational narrative describes Leonardo da Vinci's astoundingly far-reaching and varied achievements. 'Stanley produces her most stunning pictorial biography to date. In this magnificent addition to a distinguished series, award-winning author-artist Diane Stanley blends lively and informative storytelling with exquisite illustrations to convey the wondrous purity of Leonardo's genius. He served both the ruthless Cesare Borgia and the brilliant young king of France, who sheltered the aged Leonardo and desired only his conversation in return.

He found a rival in Michelangelo and a friend in a wily young diplomat named Machiavelli. He traveled all of Italy in search of patronage. He filled thousands of pages in his notebooks with plans and designs for inventions as varied as a submarine, an air cooling system, 'glasses to see the moon large,' and even a flying machine! But while he was employed by princes, popes, and kings, Leonardo's personal fortune was never great. Fascinated with the secrets of nature and the human body, he carried out his own dissections and experiments. He quickly surpassed his teacher, hut his passionate interests went far beyond art. Denied a more noble profession by his illegitimate birth, as a boy Leonardo was apprenticed to a famous artist.

He brought a sublime artistry to science and a dramatic realism to art, crowning the Renaissance with his glittering vision. He was an inventor whose imagination reached centuries beyond his own time. Born in 1452 to a peasant woman and a country gentleman, Leonardo da Vinci possessed one of the most astonishing minds the world has ever known.

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