Leanardo da Vinci: Dreams, Schemes, and Flying Machines.Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (də vĭn`chē, Ital. lāōnär`dō dä vēn`chē), 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. : Dreams, Schemes, and Flying Machines. Heinz Kahne. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Prestel (888-463-6110), 2000. Illus., hardcover, 30 pp. $14.95. The title in Prestel's new "Adventures in Art" series presents Leonardo as a polymath pol·y·math n. A person of great or varied learning. [Greek polumath , a man who first asked such questions as: Where do rivers come from? Or How do birds fly? Or How do you cast a horse in bronze? This book is an assemblage assemblage: see collage. assemblage Three-dimensional construction made from household materials such as rope and newspapers or from any found materials. of many such questions and brief text amplifications. What dominates the cream colored pages, though, are the visuals. Photographs of modern reconstructions of his models and the clearly reproduced drawings and paintings begin to answer the questions. Strong page design integrates text and pictures in ways to attract and hold a reader of any age. |
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