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Available
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Children's Press (1989), Library Binding, 32 pages
Description
Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyses some of his paintings.
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LibraryThing member jroy218
"Da Vinci (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)" introduces young children to Da Vinci and some of his important works. Many pictures of his important works are shown in the book. Some of his notebook pages are also shown. Venezia also uses cartoons to illustrate the text. This book is
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very light on content but would be good to introduce young children to Da Vinci and his works. Show Less
LibraryThing member BarrettOlivia
Da Vinci was one of the world's most well known artists. Even more than an artist he was an inventor, scientist, musician, sculptor, and mathematician. Humorous cartoons are used along side images of Da Vinci's work to help add some extra entertainment to the book. Da Vinci's techniques are well
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described and are presented to inform the reader of what makes Da Vinci so special, and why he is still popular today. I liked at the end when the writer made a list of museums to see Da Vinci's paintings at/ Show Less
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Physical description
32 p.; 8.31 inches
ISBN
051602275X / 9780516022758