Leonardo da Vinci

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1. Wikipedia: Leonardo da Vinci | Paintings
2. Museum of Science: Leonardo da Vinci, Scientist, Inventor, Artist
3. Project Gutenburg: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
4. Victoria and Albert Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design
5. Guardian Unlimited Art: Guide to Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition  
6. BBC Science & Nature: Leonardo  
7. TED Talks Video: Siegfried Woldhek: The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci? (Time: 4:18)

Leonardo da Vinci Background and Profiles

• Universal Leonardo: Leonardo Da Vinci Online
• History of Art: Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo Da Vinci: Artist, Inventor, and Universal Genius of the Renaissance 
• Minnesota State University: Leonardo da Vinci (from Giorgio Vasari's Lives)
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Leonardo Da Vinci
• Aiwez.net: Leonardo Da Vinci Profile
• Turning the Pages, Online British Gallery: Leonardo da Vinci    
• IVU.org: History of Vegetarianism and da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci Images and Video

• The Last Supper in Detail
• CNN.com: Hidden music in the Last Supper (Time 2:49)
• BBC Science and Nature: Leonardo Picture Gallery
• Web Gallery of Art: Leonardo Da Vinci
• The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci
• Victoria and Albert Museum: Leonardo Da Vinci Animated Illustrations
• Google Image Search: Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci Research

• National Museum of Science and Technology: Leonardo Da Vinci
• Loadstar's Lair: Leonardo Da Vinci, The Man & The Inventor
• Guardian Unlimited Art: The Real Da Vinci Code
• Leonardo Da Vinci: The Codex Leicester
• Leonardo Da Vinci: Pictures Within Pictures
• Vebjorn Sand: The Leonardo Project

Translations of the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

• PublicLiterature.org: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
• Internet Sacred Text Archive: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci  

Leonardo da Vinci Books and Media

• Amazon.com: Leonardo Da Vinci in His Own Words
• Amazon.com: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings And Drawings
• Amazon.com: Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind
• Amazon.com: The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci (VHS)
• Amazon.com: Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Master (DVD)

Leonardo da Vinci News and Blogs

• Google News: Leonardo da Vinci
• Studio International: Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design
• Going On: Leonardo Da Vinci - Truth Teller or Simple Painter
• AOL World News: Leonardo da Vinci Fingerprint Reconstructed
• Live Science: Leonardo Da Vinci's 10 Best Ideas

Leonardo da Vinci Timeline

• 1452: Born out of wedlock in Vinci, near Florence
• 1469: Moves to Florence and enters the studio of Andrea Verrocchio
• 1474: The Annunciation (earliest known independent painting)
• 1481: Leaves Florence; Offers services to Duke Sforza as military engineer, sculptor, and painter
• 1490: Vitruvian Man shows proportions of human body
• 1490-1494: Codex Leicester (studies on mathematics, geometry, weights, hydraulic machines)
• 1490-1505: On the Flight of Birds results in designs for parachutes gliders and flying machines
• 1495-1497: The Last Supper
• 1508: Commissioned by Louix XII
• 1513: Works in Rome as engineer for Giuliano di Medici
• 1516: Completes Mona Lisa
• 1519: Dies on May 2nd in the castle of Clos Luc in Amboise, leaving his netbooks to Francesco Melzi
• 1566: Melzi shows Leonardo's anatomical drawings to art historian Giorgio Vasari
• 1590s: Leonardo's papers come into the possession of Pompeo Leoni who takes them to Madrid
• 1610: Leoni dies in Madrid
• 1625: Accession of Charles I to the throne. He obtains Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist
• 1649: Execution of Charles I. Leonardo's Saint John now at the Louvre
• 1760: Reign of George III begins. Leoni's album is discovered in a chest in the royal household
• 1930: All drawings from the Leoni volume are removed to be conserved and displayed

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