Book Detail
Genius of Leonardo, The |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Visconti, Guido | Illustrator: Landmann, Bimba |
| Title: Genius of Leonardo, The | Date: 2000 |
| Publisher: Barefoot Books | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 1-84148-301-X | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): biography and autobiography, diaries and journals | |
HSE Descriptor(s): language arts - reading |
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Summary: |
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| Giacomo, a servant of Leonardo da Vinci, recounts the later life of the famous Italian Renaissance painter and inventor. The magnificent illustrations capture sketches, works of art, and daily life and the text includes quotation in italics from the notebooks. | |
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| Teachers will want to supplement this biography with Stanley's Leonardo (the artist as a young man) and Krull's Lives of the Artists and with material (including lesson plans in science) from the web sites below. Perhaps a K-W-L strategy will generate lists of what students already know about Leonardo and questions about what they would like to learn. Since the book has only the dates of birth (1452) and death (1519), students could research the dates of the events mentioned in the book to make a timeline. Students could use the illustrations and the website of the notebooks to make a list of inventions. Using the excerpts from the notebooks, students might want to discuss/write about Leonardo' views on the role of the artist, Leonardo's sense of curiosity, his philosophy of life. The book could also be used to prompt discussion/ writing about mentoring. Look at the Louvre web site to see the Mona Lisa. (www.louvre.fr), (www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/), (galileo.imss.firenze,it/news/mostra/index.html) | |
Teaching Strategies: |
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 K-W-L Instruction Strategyhttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/k_w_l.pdf |
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