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	The My Hero Project - Leonardo da Vinci
		Leonardo da Vinci was, and still is, known as one of the greatest inventors and thinkers of the Italian Renaissance.
		Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance.
		Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and a scientist ever curious of the world around him.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=l_davinci2 (1024 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) Italian Renaissance Artist
		Leonardo da Vinci epitomised the genius and diversity of achievements that we associate with the Italian Renaissance.
		Leonardo's early education was probably handled by Albiera and her mother-in-law, Monna Lucia who was fifty-nine when Leonardo was born.
		Leonardo's rejection of tempera, the medium choice of his master, was a considered act demonstrating a forthright belief in his own ability, which some described as arrogance.
	www.theartgallery.com.au /ArtEducation/greatartists/DaVinci/about (1646 words)

	Island of Freedom - Leonardo da Vinci
		Leonardo's equally impressive contribution to science is a modern rediscovery, having been preserved in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known only in the 20th century.
		Leonardo was born on Apr. 15, 1452, near the town of Vinci, not far from Florence.
		In it, Leonardo displays for the first time his method of organizing figures into a pyramid shape, so that interest is focused on the principal subject--in this case, the child held by his mother and adored by the three kings and their retinue.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /DAVINCI.HTM (1225 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci
		Leonardo's scientific and technical observations are found in his handwritten manuscripts, of which over 4000 pages survive, including the one pictured on the right, showing some rock formations (click on it to view an enlargement).
		While portions of Leonardo's technical treatises on painting were published as early as 1651, the scope and caliber of much of his scientific work remained unknown until the 19th century.
		Leonardo's answer was remarkably close to the modern one: fossils were once-living organisms that had been buried at a time before the mountains were raised: "it must be presumed that in those places there were sea coasts, where all the shells were thrown up, broken, and divided.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/vinci.html (784 words)

	Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance . Renaissance . Leonardo \| PBS
		Leonardo returned to Florence in 1504, and was drawn into a competition with the upstart, Michelangelo.
		Leonardo fled to the French court of Francis I, where he ended his days working on the most famous portrait in the world, the “Mona Lisa”.
		Leonardo wrote detailed notes on all of these subjects, and in the margins he often left tantalizing doodles of astonishing machines, tanks, parachutes, helicopters, many of which might actually have worked.
	www.pbs.org /empires/medici/renaissance/leonardo.html (618 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519, biography about the famous renaissance artist and painter from Italy ( find unique ...
		Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519, biography about the famous renaissance artist and painter from Italy (find unique pictures and facts you can't find elsewhere) Discover Leonardo da Vinci a man well beyond his time.
		Leonardo was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician and scientist, he was the greatest genius the world has ever seen.
		Leonardo da Vinci was a renaissance painter, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher, a genius the world has never seen again so far.
	www.kausal.com /leonardo (178 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci's Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned 500 years ago to construct an enormous bronze horse for Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, Italy.
		Leonardo's full-scale clay model was destroyed by war and the bronze horse was never constructed.
		The goals of this project are to honor the genius of Leonardo and pay homage to him by building a colossal horse based on his drawings; to recognize all Italians for enriching every aspect of our society by presenting The Horse to the Italian people as a gift from the American people.
	www.leonardoshorse.org /index.asp (460 words)

	Leonardo Da Vinci and His Flying Machines
		Leonardo had developed this solution after having studied the structure of birds' wings and having observed that the inner part of their wings moved more slowly than the outer part and that, therefore, the function of this part was to sustain rather than to push forward.
		Leonardo streamlined the wing structure to its simplest form, with wings attached directly to the flier's body (ornithopter).
		In his notes, Leonardo remarks that, with a linen curtain shaped into a pyramid having a base 12 yards (about 7 metres) across and equally deep, if it is stiffly held open, "ognuno si potrà gettare da qualsiasi altezza senza alcun rischio" (anyone can jump from no matter what height without any risk whatsoever).
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/awakening101/leonardo.html (746 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci - Olga's Gallery
		Leonardo da Vinci was the embodiment of the Renaissance ideal of the universal man, the first artist to attain complete mastery over all branches of art.
		He was born on the 15th of April, 1452 as an illegitimate son of the notary Ser Piero di Antonio da Vinci and his mother, a peasant woman Caterina, in a small town called Vinci, near Empoli, Tuscany.
		At the age of 15 he became an apprentice of the Florentine painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio and although in 1472 he entered the San Luca guild of painters in Florence, which would indicate that he had attained a degree of professional independence, he remained with Andrea del Verrocchio until 1480.
	www.abcgallery.com /L/leonardo/leonardo.html (318 words)

	Leonardo Da Vinci - Crystalinks
		Leonardo kept his private life particularly secret, and there is no evidence that Leonardo was ever intimately involved with any woman, nor in a close friendship with one.
		Leonardo's first painting completed wholly by himself was the Madonna and Child painting completed in 1478, he also painted at the same time a picture of a little boy eating sherbert.
		While most of Leonardo's inventions were not built during his lifetime, models of many of them have been constructed with the support of IBM and are on display at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum at the Chateau du Clos Luce in Amboise.
	www.crystalinks.com /davinci.html (4201 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci Biography - Biography.com
		Consisting of 1119 sheets on the entire range of Leonardo's interests, the Codex was compiled by the Italian sculptor Pompeo Leoni at the end of the 16th century and was restored in the 1960s.
		Leonardo seems to have had a special affection for the picture, for he took it with him on all of his subsequent travels.
		From 1514 to 1516, Leonardo lived in Rome under the patronage of Pope Leo X: he was housed in the Palazzo Belvedere in the Vatican and seems to have been occupied principally with scientific experimentation.
	www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9379482 (486 words)

	Leonardo
		Slight refinements were made on Leonardo's original sketch to give the viewer a clearer picture of how each of the 13 wheels can be independently operated and yet maintain the ten to one ratio.
		Leonardo's sketch shows weights to demonstrate the equability of the machine.
		The objectors claimed that Leonardo's drawing was not of a calculator but represented a ratio machine.
	www.webcom.com /calc/leonardo/leonardo.html (698 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci’s Chiaroscuro
		Leonardo da Vinci was the first artist to use value consistently across colors, achieving tonal unity in which a figure presents a single, swelling, homogeneously generated volume in contrast to the inevitably fragmented effects of color-modeling.
		In Leonardo’s painting above, a young Mary is playing with her son and holding a flower with four petals (signifying the cross).
		Leonardo’s use of the oil painting technique, still new in Italy, enables him to achieve depth and intensity of coloring and transparency in the effects of light and shade, as is also apparent in the two paintings below.
	webexhibits.org /colorart/vinci.html (448 words)

	Inventor Leonardo da Vinci Biography
		Leonardo was born in the small town of Vinci, in Tuscany, near Florence.
		Leonardo was among the first to introduce atmospheric perspective into his landscape backgrounds, an especially notable characteristic of his paintings.
		Leonardo's many extant drawings, which reveal his brilliant draftsmanship and his mastery of the anatomy of humans, animals, and plant life, may be found in the principal European collections.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/davinci.htm (2570 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci \| Renaissance Artist and Inventor
		Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy.
		In 1512 Leonardo left Milan again, and from 1513 to 1516 was in Rome under the protection of Giuliano de Medici, the brother of Pope Leo X. Here Leonardo came into contact with Michelangelo, and another young rival, Raphael.
		Leonardo died on May 2, 1519, and was buried in the cloister of San Fiorentino in Amboise.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96apr/leonardo.html (864 words)

	DaVinci's Short Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest inventor-scientist of recorded history.
		Da Vinci was dedicated to discovery of truth and the mysteries of nature, and his insightful contributions to science and technology were legendary.
		Born in 1452 as an illegitimate son of Ser piero da Vinci, da Vinci was sent to Florence in his teens to apprentice as a painter under Andrea del Verrocchio.
	sulcus.berkeley.edu /FLM/SH/MDL/Invention/Davinci.Bio.html (376 words)

	Death of Leonardo da Vinci in Amboise, France ( 1519 )
		Piero was the great-grandfather of Leonardo da Vinci.
		Leonardo and his father lived in the same house until they moved to Florence.
		It is supposed that Leonardo spent his first years of childhood with Catarina in Anchiano.
	www.kausal.com /leonardo/familytree.html (292 words)

	Amazon.com: Leonardo's Notebooks: Books: Leonardo da Vinci,H. Anna Suh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Leonardo da Vinci is recognized as the quintessential Renaissance Man. A great painter, he was equally prodigious in the fields of architecture, engineering, anatomy, and physical science.
		It is with DA Vinci, that the science of seeing became the foundation of self-representation, a representation called the self, thus the representation of the human form.
		Leonardo was born in the Tuscan town of Vinci on April 15, 1452.
	www.amazon.com /Leonardos-Notebooks-Leonardo-da-Vinci/dp/1579124577 (3286 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci
		Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant man who has influenced our world in ways that many people are not aware of.
		Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy in 1452.
		Zainy Leonardo wrote in an odd fashion at a time when people were not kept from writing with their left hand.
	www.montana.edu /4teachers/instcomp/hunts/art/davinci/sample.html (461 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1515, François I of France retook Milan, and Leonardo was commissioned to make a centrepiece (a mechanical lion) for the peace talks between the French king and Pope Leo X in Bologna, where he must have first met the King.
		While most of Leonardo's inventions were not built during his lifetime, models of many of them have been constructed with the support of IBM and are on display at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum at the Château du Clos Lucé in Amboise[6].
		Leonardo is reputed to have followed an unusual regime of polyphasic sleep, with frequent naps instead of extended periods of sleep.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci (3755 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci Online
		Leonardo's students included Andrea Solario, Bernardino Luini, Cesare da Sesto, Francesco Melzi, Ambrogio de Predis and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.
		Leonardo da Vinci at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		All images and text on this Leonardo da Vinci page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/leonardo_da_vinci.html (912 words)

	Rocky Road: Leonardo da Vinci
		His mother was a peasant girl, and though she may have cared for him as a baby, she married and started a new family while he was still a little boy.
		Da Vinci rejected the notion that fossils were just "sports of nature," understanding instead that they belonged to once-living organisms.
		Nature, being inconstant and taking pleasure in creating and continually producing new forms, because she knows that her terrestrial materials are thereby augmented, is more ready and more swift in her creating than is time in his destruction.
	www.strangescience.net /davinci.htm (793 words)

	History of Vegetarianism - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - da Vinci's vegetarianism
		Leonardo da Vinci is widely regarded as the archetypal universal genius.
		Vezzosi is founder and director of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci in Vinci, Italy
		A further source of da Vinci material is the Codex Madid, which was thought lost, and was rediscovered in 1965 (and thus unavailable to Richter, MacCurdy, and Merejkowski).
	www.ivu.org /history/davinci/hurwitz.html (2524 words)

	The My Hero Project - Leonardo da Vinci
		But Leonardo was the most intellectually versatile of them all and brilliantly original in everything he did, without the benefit of a formal education except in graphic art.
		Whatever other areas his monumental genius explored, in this one he was not only the first but the most perceptive, discovering structures and their functioning that would not be understood by others for generations and in some instances centuries.
		His ultimate aim was no less than the elucidation of all nature, and it was to this self-appointed mission that he applied the most diversely expansive mind that the world has ever known.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Leonardo_da_Vinci (1893 words)

	LEONARDO3 - Leonardo da Vinci \| OFFICIAL WEBSITE 2005
		Leonardo’s Codex Atlanticus is now available for the first time in history to the general public.
		Leonardo’s design has nothing to do with the strongbox featured in the novel and there is no trace of this mechanism in the other Codices.
		Leonardo’s Bridges, the first publication by the new publisher Leonardo3 (L3), is a completely new approach to introducing history and science to the public.
	leonardo3.net /leonardo/home_eng.htm (1248 words)

	WebMuseum: Leonardo da Vinci: La Joconde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This figure of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape, is a remarkable instance of Leonardo's sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling.
		Reams have been written about this small masterpiece by Leonardo, and the gentle woman who is its subject has been adapted in turn as an aesthetic, philosophical and advertising symbol, entering eventually into the irreverent parodies of the Dada and Surrealist artists.
		Leonardo himself loved the portrait, so much so that he always carried it with him until eventually in France it was sold to François I, either by Leonardo or by Melzi.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/vinci/joconde (398 words)

	Web Lessons -- Leonardo da Vinci
		The great Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most influential artists and thinkers on Western civilization.
		Because da Vinci was a brilliant scientist and inventor as well as a masterful artist.
		Leonardo @ the Museum was an exhibit during the summer of 1997, and a few things from the exhibit are still available online.
	www.learnersonline.com /gifted/CD/lessons/daVinci/daVinci.html (743 words)

	Leonardo da Vinci
		Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a local lawyer in the small town of Vinci in the Tuscan region.
		His father acknowledged him and paid for his training, but we may wonder whether the strangely self-sufficient tone of Leonardo's mind was not perhaps affected by his early ambiguity of status.
		What she is truly like she conceals; what Leonardo reveals to us is precisely this concealment, a self-absorption that spares no outward glance.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/L/leonardo.html (944 words)

	Wired 12.11: The Real da Vinci Code
		Da Vinci was self-taught and often referred to himself as an omo sanze lettere - a man without letters; Rosheim is a high school dropout.
		Da Vinci was apprenticed to Andrea del Verrocchio's workshop at age 15; Rosheim filed for his first patent - for a hydraulically powered servomechanism - at age 18.
		Da Vinci was determined to understand the architecture of the human body.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.11/davinci.html (1086 words)

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