Summary: Presents brief profiles of over eighty major artists throughout history, providing the historical context in which each artist worked, their influences, and legacies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 709.22 ARTDavis, Lynn
Summary: Presents the story of how an eccentric young artist became the inventor of the first telegraph system.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MORIsaacson, Walter
Summary: Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and engineering. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DA VINCI, LEONARDO ISATaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Who were the artists of the Renaissance? Why do we still learn from Renaissance art? Using an inquiry-based approach, readers are introduced to the Italian Renaissance as it was experienced by five of the world's most renowned artists: Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. Readers will learn about the biographies of these Renaissance artists through the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2018