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Book Description
Quite precise three-dimensional paper models of 3 of the ideas of Leonardo da Vinci : a helicopter, a tank and a paddle boat. An illustrated text gives historical information and step by step instructions for assembly in English, French, German and Italian. There are 2 colored sheets to cut-out in order to build the model (one machine : about 3.5 x 3.5 inches, height 3.5 inches).

Book Description
A beautiful new series of art books to treasure. DK introduces a new series of lavishly illustrated paperback books on major artists and their works. Each volume tells the story of a single artist with a look at the artist's life and times, the historical and social context in which they worked, and an analysis of their masterpieces. A visual resource with more than 300 superb full-color illustrations, each book is written by a noted art historian. Fact-based text aimed at the general reader makes the series perfect for art-history students and art lovers of all ages. Each title surveys an individual artist's life and works Detailed analysis of the artist's masterpieces Includes comparative samples of the work of each artist's contemporaries.

Book Description
This study is an effort to understand why writing and drawing were so important to Leonardo da Vinci, who, over the course of his lifetime, filled about 15,000 pages with texts and images. Focusing on the fragmentary and chaotic character of his notes, Robert Zwijnenberg also examines the influence of important cultural developments during the Italian Renaissance, as well as the work of fellow intellectuals such as Cusanus, Alberti, Taccola, and Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Zwijnenberg's study sheds new light on linear perspective and anatomy, the artist's most favored fields of study.

About the Author
Sherwin B. Nuland is the author of the bestselling How We Die, which won the 1994 National Book Award for Nonfiction; The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myth; Doctors: The Biography of Medicine; and The Wisdom of the Body, recently published in paperback as How We Live. He is Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history and bioethics.

Leonardo
The Artist and the Man
Synopsis
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.

Leonardo Lives
The Codex Leicester and Leonardo da Vinci´s Legacy of Art and Science
Reviewer: A reader
The Codex Leicester is the only Leonardo manuscript owned in the United States and the only one in the world still in private hands. Since Microsoft chairman Bill Gates purchased it in 1994 for $30.8 million, it has been exhibited in Venice, Milan, Rome,Paris and New York.