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Stanley, George Edward.
LEONARDO DA VINCI : YOUNG ARTIST, WRITER, AND INVENTOR
New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2005.
IL 3-6, RL 6.5
ISBN 1416905707
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Meet one of the greatest minds in history. Da Vinci lived during the Renaissance and epitomized the true Renaissance man.  He was a great artists and is well known for his painting of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. He was a sculptor, an architect, an engineer and a scientist.  His notebooks reveal a man who was truly inventive and conceived of things that were well ahead of their time.  He invented a flying machine before the materials to build it even existed.  Find out about how a boy from a small town in Italy became one of the greatest thinkers of all time.
SUBJECTS:     Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
                        Artists.
                        Inventors.

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