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Index
Cover
Introduction
Part 1. In the Beginning
1. Where It All Began: Vinci, Italy
2. The Mamas and the Papas, and Everyone in Between
3. “Current Events” in Fifteenth-Century Italy
4. The Life You’re Born Into
5. Siblings of a Genius
6. It’s All Relative
7. Youthful Adventures
8. Get to Work! Leonardo’s Early Training
9. What Did They Do Before There Were Bookstores?
10. Apprenticeship, or Learning from Your Elders
11. Turning Dust Into Gold: Early Painting Experience
12. Getting Off to a Good Start
13. Membership Has Its Privileges
14. Striking Out on His Own
15. The Rebirth of Italy
16. Renaissance Religion
17. Don’t Forget the Golden Oldies
18. Show Me the Money!
19. The Importance of Being Sponsored
20. Lorenzo the Magnificent
21. Playing Up to the Duke
22. Look Out, It’s Cesare Borgia!
23. The Best of the Louis
24. Don’t Mess with the Pope
25. Francis I, King of France and Friend of Leonardo
26. Da Vinci University
Part 2. The Best of the Best of the Best
27. Early Sculpture: A Celebration in Three Dimensions
28. Form, Function, and the Whole Nine Yards
29. A Horse Is a Horse, of Course, of Course
30. Draw Up a Chair
31. The Scene Behind the Scene
32. Finish That Painting! Leonardo and the Fine Art of Completion
33. Building the Scene-Scape
34. An Architecture of the Imagination
35. It’s All in the Details
36. Monks and Lawyers and Artists, Oh My!
37. The Life and Times of The Last Supper
38. There’s Something about Lisa
39. Oldies but Goodies
40. Building the Renaissance
41. The Milan Dome
42. Order in the Church!
43. San Giovanni Church: Closer to Heaven
44. Build It and They Will Come: Designs for Other Public Structures
45. Military Architecture: The Design of Defense
46. He Built This City
Part 3. What It’s All About
47. Observe and Understand
48. Love That Body!
49. From the Inside Out: Studies of Human Systems
50. Fawning over Flora
51. The Perfect Man
52. Getting Physical with Science
53. It’s All in the Circle Game
54. Before Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
55. War Games
56. Building a Better . . . Cannon?
57. Leonardo’s Robot
58. Chutes (We Already Covered Ladders)
59. It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Flying Machine!
60. Leonardo’s Whirlybird
61. The World Before Xerox
62. Under the Boardwalk, Down by the Sea
63. Containing the Forces of Nature
64. Harnessing the Power of Water
65. The Ocean Liners of the Future
66. Around and Around We Go
67. Gone with the Schwinn
68. A Coach Fit for a King
Part 4. Writing, Drawing, and Music
69. The Leonardo Diaries
70. Every Binder Needs a Few Dividers
71. And the Lucky Winner Is . . .
72. Decoding the Codices
73. Say “Cheese!”
74. It’s Like Looking in a Mirror
75. Write to the Point
76. Bringing Down the House
Part 5. Who, What, Where, and What Else
77. Michelangelo: The Renaissance’s Other Great Artist
78. The Young Master, Raphael
79. Botticelli on a Half Shell
80. Titian: His Own Personal Giant
81. Machiavelli: The Literary Prince of the Renaissance
82. Talking about a Religious Revolution
83. Center of the Universe
84. Leonardo on the Analyst’s Couch
Part 6. The Writing on the Wall
85. Vegetable Soup for a Gentle Soul
86. Highly Personal Accusations
87. Amigos, Compadres . . . Lovers?
88. Let’s Talk about Sex
89. Warning: Genius at Work
90. Minor Errors of a Major Genius
91. Why Be Normal?
92. Crazy Like a Fox
93. More Than Meets the Eye
94. “R-e-s-p-e-c-t”
95. Sincerest Form of Flattery
96. A Horse of a Different Color
97. In the Beginning, There Was Religion
98. It’s All in the Name!
99. In Sickness and in Health
100. Leonardo da Vinci: The Renaissance Man
101. Da Vinci in Popular Culture
About the Authors
Works Cited
Index
Copyright
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