Leonardo Author:Leonardo da Vinci, Mina Bacci 15 pages of text with illustrations followed by 63 plates in full color. A brief biography of the Italian "Renaissance man" accompanies sixty-three annotated color plates of his paintings and scientific drawings. — Leonardo da Vinci means ability, creative power, intellect, and achievement. Not only were his paintings of superb be... more »auty and sublime spiritual content that place them among the world's masterpieces, but in his lifetime his scientific investigations of geology, botany, anatomy, hydraulics and mechanics, as well as his theoretical work in mathematics, attest to the penetration of his genius. « less