Librarian's Choice of the Month [Sep 2006]

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
 
  Resources Available at Lingnan ...
Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal ... (Britannica Online)

the founding father of what is called the High Renaissance style and exercised an enormous influence on contemporary and later artists ... (Grove Art Online)

High-resolution images available at Art Throughout the Ages (Luna Insight)
 
Works by Leonardo da Vinci or about Leonardo da Vinci Available at Lingnan including audio books and music:

-- Famous people in history. II
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
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Art & Music: Da Vinci - Music of his Time

  More Resources from the Internet ...

The Italian National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci
 

Web Gallery of Art
 
Some digitized notebook pages with explanations from the British Library
 
BBC Leonardo homepage

 

Catholic Encyclopedia (1912)
 
Works by Leonardo da Vinci; Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice Walter Brockwell at Project Gutenberg

 


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