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Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Journalist and storyteller Toby Lester brings Vitruvian Man to life, resurrecting the ghost of an unknown Leonardo. Populated by a colorful cast of characters, including Brunelleschi of the famous Dome, "Da Vinci's Ghost" opens up a surprising window onto the artist and philosopher himself and the tumultuous intellectual and cultural transformations he bridged.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Tells the complete story of the creation of The Last Supper mural: the adversities suffered by the artist during its execution; the experimental techniques he employed; the models for Christ and the Apostles that he used; and the numerous personalities involved -- everyone from the Leonardo's young assistants to Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan who commissioned the work.
Series
Robert Langdon volume 2
Publisher
The Disinformation Company Ltd
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This definitive documentary exploration of the novel, The Da Vinci Code, rounds up all the key players in the field to talk about key topics in the novel. Features stunning original photography from Paris, London, Scotland and France.
Author
Language
English
Description
"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The [bestselling biographer] brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Drawing on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity,...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius"--
13) Da Vinci and the code he lived by: the unique vision and determination of the renaissance master
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Examines and recounts the life of Leonardo da Vinci, using a combination of reenactment, commentary by scholars, and narration.
Series
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, whose masterpieces include The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa. An acclaimed genius, Leonardo Da Vinci was also an architect, draftsman, engineer, inventor, mathematician, philosopher and visionary, whose research and studies contributed to many developments in modern day science. Da Vinci was ever prepared to call everything into question and reduce to ashes the...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Destruction was not his design. After a long and disastrous personal quest, it's a slow, painful rebirth for Leonardo Da Vinci as he comes to the realization that his greatest enemy is himself. After travelling from Florence to South America and back in his relentless search for the fabled Book of Leaves, Florence is in ruins and dear friends have recently been buried. Da Vinci now must rebuild himself, as well as his beloved city, just as the Turks...
Publisher
Starz Originals, distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but Da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light.
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovers that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian with whom Langdon had been scheduled to meet. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a...
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