Includes bibliographical references (page 87) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Timeline -- A boy in Vinci: Setting up your studio -- Observing nature -- Brush up on birds -- The young apprentice: A beaker for brushes -- Framed! -- A life mask -- Kitchen clay -- Perspective -- The Renaissance -- Animal art -- Well-bannered -- Pinpointing the vanishing point -- A genius at work: Leonardo's letter to Ludovico -- Leonardo's lute -- Mirror writing -- A discovery notebook -- Measuring up -- The plague -- A masque of the planets -- Leonardo's prophecies -- Eye exercises -- Leonardo's inventions -- Italy's kingdoms and city-states -- Leonardo's lunch -- For the birds -- Salai's aniseed sweets -- Mental exercise -- Leonardo's lock -- Learn a little Italian -- Flight -- A parachute kite -- Restoring The Last Supper -- Missiles and math -- "I shall continue.": The nature of sound -- Art detectives -- The craft of cartography -- How tall is that tree? -- Simple machines -- Who was Mona Lisa? -- Looking at art -- A Renaissance herb garden -- Glossary -- Biographies -- Resources.
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Presents a biography of this prolific artist and inventor through projects in cartography, animal art, bird observation, and mask making.
USERS/INTENDED AUDIENCE NOTE
Text of Note
Grades 407.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Leonardo,1452-1519
Leonardo,1452-1519.
Leonardo,1452-1519
Leonardo,1452-1519.
1452-1519., Leonardo
Leonardo,1452-1519
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Art-- Study and teaching (Elementary)-- Activity programs.
Art-- Study and teaching (Middle school)-- Activity programs.
Artists-- Italy, Biography, Juvenile literature.
Creative activities and seat work, Juvenile literature.
Science-- Study and teaching (Elementary)-- Activity programs.
Science-- Study and teaching (Middle school)-- Activity programs.
Artists.
Handicraft.
Art-- Study and teaching (Elementary)-- Activity programs.
Artists-- Italy, Biography.
Artists.
Creative activities and seat work.
Handicraft.
Science-- Study and teaching (Elementary)-- Activity programs.
Science-- Study and teaching (Middle school)-- Activity programs.