Table of Contents

Chapter

Time Line

1

A Boy In Vinci

Setting Up Your Studio

Observing Nature

Brush Up On Birds

2

The Young Apprentice

A Beaker for Brushes

Framed!

A Life Mask

Pigments and Paint

Kitchen Clay

Perspective

The Renaissance

Animal Art

Well-Bannered

Pinpointing the Vanishing Point

3

A Genius at Work

Leonard’s Letter to Ludovico

Leonardo’s Lute

Mirror Writing

A Discovery Notebook

Measuring Up

The Plague

A Masque of the Planets

Leonardo’s Prophechies

Eye Exercises

Leonardo’s Inventions

Italy’s Kingdoms and City-States

Leonardo’s Lunch

For the Birds

Salai’s Aniseed Sweets

Mental Exercise

Leonardo’s Lock

Learn a Little Italian

Flight

A Parachute Kite

Restoring The Last Supper

Missiles and Math

4

“I Shall Continue”

The Nature of Sound

Art Detectives

The Craft of Cartography

How Tall Is That Tree?

Simple Machines

Who Was Mona Lisa?

Looking at Art

A Renaissance Herb Garden

 

Glossary

Biographies

Web Sites to Explore

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