Harvard Professor Robert Langton, visiting Paris, is called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and beyond.

IT TAKES A GENIUS TO HIDE A SECRET IN PLAIN VIEW... The international phenomenon now in paperback: mystery, intrigue and death combine in a riveting historical thriller that reveals the unknown secrets behind Leonardo Da Vinci's controversial painting of The Last Supper.

This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Leonardo expert Martin Kemp.

When Beatrice is betrothed to Ludovico, the Duke of Milan, Isabella finds herself drawn to her sister's husband. In fierce rivalry, the sisters fight for Ludovico's affections and to be immortalized by his court painter, Leonardo da Vinci. Meanwhile Da Vinci fights a battle of his own, to escape the incessant pressure of his noble patrons.

A monograph of Leonardo Da Vinci's art and his development. It provides an introduction to Leonardo's genius.

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades.

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before ...

By examining the seven essential aspects of Da Vinci's way of thinking, this guidebook gives you the tools you need to enhance aptitude in every area of your life. Numerous exercises, anecdotes and illustrations help you master these techniques to create a personal and professional renaissance of your very own.

Tells the story of Matteo, which offers a glimpse into the world of Da Vinci. Fleeing from a murderous brigand, Matteo is saved by the companions of Leonardo da Vinci. From this moment on, Matteo is at the Maestro's side as he carries out his work, which ranges from the painting of magnificent frescos to intricate dissection of the human body.

The fun and easy way to understand his work, his methods, and his mind Thanks to the phenomenal success of the bestselling The Da Vinci Code, interest in this famed Renaissance artist has never been higher.

The text includes the first full emergence of the concept of narcissism and develops Freud's theories of homosexuality.

Subtitled 'The First Scientist', this new one-volume biography places science at the centre of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work

Presents the work of Leonardo da Vinci, who remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous painting, scientist, philosopher, builder, he is credited with defining the accomplishments of the great flowering in human consciousness.

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For the next four years, he and a team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling. This book tells the story of those four years and paints a picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding - in the upheaval of early sixteenth-century Rome.

An account of the life of perhaps the greatest polymath who ever lived

From the authors of The Sion Revelation comes the reissue of a classic work in this genre.

Giacomo's quest to impress his father and catch an evasive bird is foiled at every attempt because an old man is freeing every bird he catches. Ages 5+. (SA: Reception - Year 2)

Adventure thriller set in Renaissance Italy starring Leonardo da Vinci as a young apprentice who witnesses a murder and becomes involved in a plot to take over the city.

From armoured tanks and gliders to 'plastic glass' and drawing machines, this book explores the mind of Leonardo da Vinci through hands-on building projects and activities. It aims to help kids examine some of Leonardo da Vinci's original sketches, with instructions, diagrams, and templates for each project, which are interspersed with facts.