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Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
Author
Publisher
Suma de letra
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Europa, siglo XV, mientras España, Francia e Inglaterra ultiman su unificación, los Estados italianos se ven envueltos en conflictos permanentes por culpa de la religión, el poder y el ansia de expansión territorial. Lo unico que les une es le renacimiento cultural de las artes. En la Florencia de los Médici, epicentro de este despliegue artístico, una mano anónima acusa de sodomía a un joven y prometedor Leonardo de Vinci. Durante dos...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
English language ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Leonardo da Vinci concentrating on his work, dreams and wild inventions as seen through the eyes of his mischevious young assistant, Giacomo. Incorporates many of Leonardo's original words and sketches.
Series
Exhibition on screen volume EX 04
Publisher
Seventh Art Productions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A remarkable event occurred at London's National Gallery when the largest ever collection of Leonardo's surviving paintings was assembled for a unique exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan. Art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow offers his insight into the great masterpieces and invites the opinions of the curators, restorers and other specially invited guests.
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children's ideas of who Leonardo was and what it means to be a scientist.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci portrait known as the Mona Lisa, including its 1911 theft from the Louvre in Paris, from the point of view of the subject of the painting. Includes an author's note with facts about the painting.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the 500th anniversary of da Vinci's death, NOVA goes to Italy to explore his life and work. Then, in the basement of the Louvre, scientists and art restoration experts deploy cutting-edge technology to (digitally) peel back the layers of da Vinci's works. Ultimately, they'll reveal the impact of his science on his art and his art on his science.
Author
Publisher
Ballatine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as savior of the world is "the rarest thing on the planet." Its $450 million sale price also makes it the world's most expensive painting. For two centuries, art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the art museum, while her grandmother dozes, Katie steps into the painting of the Mona Lisa and together they have adventures with the characters from four other well-known Renaissance paintings. Includes information about the artists.
11) Leonardo's horse
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
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"--
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
2-disc widescreen special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. 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 chase...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Unraveling the hidden agendas of the world's richest men and most powerful art institutions, the documentary reveals how vested interests became all-important, and the truth secondary.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 46 min., 56 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the fascinating Great artist series, we investigate some of the best artists in history - examining their influence, style and what exactly made them so unique. In this double package we examine two giants of the Renaissance period - Leonardo da Vinci, genius scientist, inventor, engineer and artist, and his contemporary and equal Michelangelo.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2008
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (ca. 78 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monday with a mad genius: Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
Dark day in the deep sea: When eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister, Annie, join a group of nineteenth-century explorers aboard the H.M.S. Challenger, they learn about the ocean, solve the mystery of its fabled sea monster, and gain compassion for their...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar...
Publisher
Distributed by Ventura Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the hidden meaning in the masterpieces of Leonardo DaVinci, including the controversial link between Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene, and DaVinci. Also explores the secret society that included DaVinci, Isaac Newton, Botticelli, and Victor Hugo.
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