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  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    "Leonardo da Vinci...oh yeah, that is the guy who painted the Mona Lisa!" That was all I knew about Leonardo da Vinci before I started this report. I knew that he lived during the Renaissance and that he was a very important man, but that is about it. There is so much more about Leonardo that he is known for, other than him being the painter of the famous Mona Lisa. Leonardo was a universal

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    Submitted: January 7, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing. Da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited with being a master painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. He was born an illegitimate child to Catherina, a

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    Submitted: February 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

      Leonardo da Vinci: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer remains a subject of fascination despite his death over 450 years ago. His paintings are some of the most easily recognized artwork in the world today, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Some of his scientific designs were so visionary, they weren’t able to be realized in his time. Even today, he remains a subject of

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Jack
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo was born in the village in Anchiano, a few miles from a small town of Vinci, in Tuscany, near Florence. He was the son of a rich Florentine notary and a peasant woman. In the mid-1460s the family stayed in Florence, where Leonardo was given the best education that Florence (a major intellectual and artistic centre of Italy) could offer. He fastly advanced socially and intellectually. He was persuasive in conversation, and a good

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Monika
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Always thinking, many works unfinished, lived in many places, this was the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci had a powerful mind and was a very curious and daring boy. Leonardo was so curious about flying, he jumped off a barn with wings that he made by himself. Leonardo loved nature and exploring. He would also like to draw geometrical shapes. Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy. Vinci was

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    It was the period of the renaissance when Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452. Leonardo was born a farmhouse in Anchiano, which is 2 Ѕ miles away from Vinci. The family of Leonardo lived in this area since the 13th century. The father of Leonardo da Vinci, Ser Piero, was 25 years old; he was a public notary when Leonardo was born. The mother of Leonardo was called Catarina. Her first name

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    The illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence. His father took custody of the little fellow shortly after his birth, while his mother married someone else and moved to a neighboring town. They kept on having kids, although not with each other, and they eventually supplied him with a total of 17 half sisters and brothers..

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Anna
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest minds in history. He is highly skilled and has complete mastery in art, science, and engineering. In an era filled with other Brilliant minds, the achievements that he has made in his lifetime, in the fields of science, and art was inconceivable and too advanced for his time period, and was not thought of again until modern times. Leonardo da Vinci is one of

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Monika
  • Book Report on Leonardo Da Vinci (notes)

    Book Report on Leonardo Da Vinci (notes)

    Biography Project 1. The drawing of a man in a circle of mirrors- This is a self portrait Da Vinci created, and below the portrait it is signed with: Leonardus Vincius, along with a notation: “portrait of himself in fairly old age”. This is an extremely old yet famous painting which it is rarely exhibited in public, and is stored away from air and light, that could easily damage this ancient work of art. Unlike

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: regina
  • The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci

    The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci

    The lifetime accomplishments of Leonardo daVinci are not only astonishing but truly inspiring. Leonardo made his mark as an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. The versatility and creative power of Leonardo mark him as a supreme example of renaissance genius. He depicted in his drawings, with scientific precision and consummate artistry, subjects ranging from flying machines to caricatures. He also executed intricate anatomical studies of people, animals, and plants. The richness

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Jon
  • Leonardo Da Vinci - Renaissance Man

    Leonardo Da Vinci - Renaissance Man

    There are not many men in the history of the world that have inspired, influenced and revolutionized the modern world as Leonardo da Vinci has. His works in Arts, Science, Engineering and many others has influenced many people in their respective fields. His works in Engineering such as the designing of a machine that can fly has gone on to influence the Wright brothers who invented the airplane. His research in Anatomy and other biological

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    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Max
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci was a man ahead of his time, and against all odds prevailed over skeptics and used his ideas to make the modern world what it is today. He was making advancements that we have only mastered six hundred years after his death. He was a genius of his time and a genius of even our modern day. In the 1400’s when he was flourishing with new ideas and concepts, people of his

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: July
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant man who has influenced our world in ways. Clearly displays how his genius is the gift of God not the acquirement of human art. His abilities were extraordinary that was not only he valued in his own days, but his renown still fascinates us today. From childhood on, the way Leonardo interprets experiences shapes the way other responds to him and the way he feels about himself. His love

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Monika
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452.Leonardo da Vinci was educated in his father's house receiving the usual elementary education of reading, writing and arithmetic. In 1467 he became an apprentice learning painting, sculpture and acquiring technical and mechanical skills. He was accepted into the painters' guild in Florence in 1472 but he continued to work as an apprentice until 1477. From that time he worked for himself in Florence as a painter. Already

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing. Da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited with being a master painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. He was born an illegitimate child

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Jon
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci was an all around Renaissance Man, who accomplished many things during his life. He was a celebrated painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and inventor. Innovations of his paintings influenced Italian art a century after his death. His scientific studies such as anatomy, optics, and hydraulics led to the development of modern science. He was born in a town in Tuscany, near Florence. His dad was a wealthy Florentine notary, and his

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing. Da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited with being a master painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. He was born an illegitimate child to Catherina, a

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Artists have always found it difficult to make a living off their art. Even a master like Leonardo was forced to sell out in order to support himself, so he adapted his drawing skills to the more lucrative fields of architecture, military engineering, canal building and weapons design. Although a peacenik at heart, Leonardo landed a job working for the Duke of Milan by calling himself a military engineer and outlining some of his sinister

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci is easily one of the most well known artists of the world. When most people hear his name, the first thing that probably comes to mind is the Mona Lisa, or perhaps The Last Supper, but those works of art seem to be the extent of people's knowledge about this great Renaissance artist. What many people do not know is why his art is so highly regarded, or that

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    Submitted: March 13, 2010 By: Artur
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    The life of the extremely talented artist, and brilliant scientist, Leonardo da Vinci began on the date of April 15, 1452 during the Renaissance; in the town of Vinci, Italy. His parents were Peiro da Vinci, and a beautiful young woman named Caterina. From a very young age he discovered his artistic skills and became an apprentice to a famous Renaissance master. For many years he worked on very beautiful paintings for people such as

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    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Renaissance Man Leonardo Da Vinci

    Renaissance Man Leonardo Da Vinci

    The Renaissance was a European intellectual and social movement beginning in the trading hub of Florence, Italy and gradually expanded to encompass the whole of Europe. People of the Renaissance age were interested in the Classical works of the ancient Greeks and Romans, they wanted to improve their lives with technology and better understand the natural world. The perfect Renaissance man was said to appreciate multiple fields of study, and examine the world with a

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    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Top
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci, perhaps the greatest man in history, invented thousands of things including the helicopter, tank and portable bridge. Leonardo was not only an inventor ,but a sculptor, an artist and an architect. He was born 1452 in the small town of Vinci ,in Tuscany. His father was a wealthy notary and his mother a peasant woman. In the mid 1460s the family moved to Florence here he was given the best education Florence

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    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Mike
  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci was a man of many worlds. He was a great influence inhis time. Leonardo was known as many things. He was known as a sculptor, architect, writer, musician,philosopher, engineer, and scientist. But most of all he was known for his impressive paintings that influenced the world. Leonardo was born in Anchiano, Italy on April 15, 1452, to Piero Da Vinci, a prominent public official in Florence, and a

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    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: July
  • Renaissance Painter - Leonardo Da Vinci

    Renaissance Painter - Leonardo Da Vinci

    Renaissance Painter: Leonardo da Vinci Robin Fitzpatrick His 101 Professor Becker March 11,2011 The late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Europe saw a flowering of culture as the art, literature, and philosophy of the Greco-Roman world were rediscovered. Artists strove for perspective and realism in their paintings. Many Renaissance scholars and artists studied the art and learning from ancient Greece and Rome, attempting to recapture the spirit of those cultures in their philosophies and their works of

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    Submitted: May 8, 2011 By: dzgurl528
  • Da Vinci Code Summary

    Da Vinci Code Summary

    Summary of Book Book: Da Vinci Code Author: Dan Brown Setting: France and Paris Characters: Robert Langdon, Sophie Neveu, Lee Teabing, Jacques Sauniиre, Jйrфme Collet, Silas, Bezu Fache, Manuel Aringrarosa, Rйmy Legaludec Genre: Fiction/Mystery Summary Five months before the novel begins, Bishop Aringarosa is called to the Vatican and told that the Pope no longer wants the Catholic Church to be associated with Opus Dei. The Church has decided to give Opus Dei twenty-million euro,

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Stenly

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