The young Leonardo : art and life in fifteenth-century Florence / by Feinberg, Larry J.

Subjects: “…Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.…”
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DA VINCI GLOBE.

Subjects: “…Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.…”
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The artist, the philosopher, and the warrior : the intersecting lives of da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the world they shaped / by Strathern, Paul, 1940-

Subjects: “…Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.…”

Perpetual motion : transforming shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne / by Jeanneret, Michel

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Brain, vision, memory : tales in the history of neuroscience / by Gross, Charles G.

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Early Printed Books as Material Objects : Proceeding of the Conference Organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich, 19-21 August 2009 /

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Making copies in European art 1400-1600 : shifting tastes, modes of transmission, and changing contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait and copies after his Woman and her toilette : recollections of the Alhambra's constellation halls, the hamman, and alchemy / Barbara von Barghahn -- Not just copies but variations, suggestions, interpretations and critical reception : Joos van Cleve and the lost Madonna of the cherries by Leonardo da Vinci / Mari Pietrogiovanna -- Pictorial copies in Granada during the early modern age / David García Cueto.…”
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And then came dance : the women who led Volynsky to ballet's magic kingdom / by Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- A Note on the Text -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Akim Volynsky's Female Portraits -- PART ONE: BODIES IN SITU -- Russian Women: A Retrospective (1923) -- 1) Amoureuses and Druidesses -- 2) A Belated Druidess (on Lyubov Gurevich) -- 3) The Sylph (on Zinaida Gippius) -- 4) Pandora's Box (on Ida Rubinstein) -- 5) A Bouquet (on Lou Andreas-Salome and others) -- Amor (co-authored with Lou Andreas-Salome, 1897) -- The Mona Lisa (from Volynsky's book: Leonardo da Vinci (1898) -- 1) Nastasya Filippovna (1900) -- 2) The Infernal Woman (Grushenka) (from Volynsky's writings on Dostoevsky 1901) -- Madonna (Introduction to the Russian edition of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character, 1909) -- BODIES IN MOTION -- The 'Russkaya' (Ekaterina Geltser) (1912) -- The Young Generation (1912) -- The Dancing of Isadora Duncan (1913) -- The Dancing of Anna Pavlova (1913) -- Three Ballerinas (Pavlova, Preobrazhenskaya, Kshesinskaya) (1913) -- A Legendary Talent (Agrippina Vaganova) (1913) -- The Russian Dancer (1913) -- The Pupil of Mariya Savina (Olga Spesivtsva) (1913) -- The Performances at Krasnoe Selo (1913) -- The Broken Harp (Olga Preobrazhenskaya) (1913) -- The Snowflake (Olga Spesivtseva) (1913) -- Anna Pavlova (1914) -- A Pre-eminent Talent (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1914) -- Vain Precautions (Tamara Karsavina) (1915) -- Kseniya Makletsova (1915) -- Moscow and Petrograd (Geltser, Makletsova, et al) (1915) -- Agrippina Vaganova's Farewell Benefit (1916) -- The Testing of a Ballerina (Elena Liukom) (1916) -- Yuliya Sedova's Farewell Benefit (1916) -- Tamara Karsavina (1916) -- Vera Karalli (1916) -- Liubov Egorova's Final Benefit Performance (1917) -- The Classical Dancer (1922) -- Elsa Vill (1922) -- Classical Fouette and Leonardo da Vinci's Contrapposto (1922) -- Giselle and The Little Humpbacked Horse (Elena Liukom) (1922) -- The Animated Flower (1923) -- Ballet's Lily (Elizaveta Gerdt) (1923) -- Kseniya Petrovna Makletsova (1923) -- Elena Liukom (1923) -- Our Moscow Guests (Viktorina Kriger) (1923) -- The Gemstones of Benvenuto Cellini (1923) -- On the Russian Ballet (1923) -- The Fairy of Deer Park (Mathilda Kshesinskaya) (1924).…”

History of medical illustration, from antiquity to 1600 / by Herrlinger, Robert, 1914-1968

Table of Contents: “…Antiquity -- The five-figure series -- Pictures of the organs -- Surgery -- Obstetrics -- Bandaging -- Books and illustrations -- Materia medica -- The Middle Ages -- Venesection ficutres -- Urinalysis -- "Wound-men" -- Cauterization scense -- Scenes from medical practice -- Anatomy -- Islamic graphic art -- Materia medica -- Surgical incunabula -- Medico-religious incunabula -- Medical scenes in incunabula -- Origins of the Indication Line -- The End of Scholastic Illustration -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Berengario, Dryander, and Canano -- Charles Estienne and Estienne de la Rivière -- Vesalius -- "Plagiarists" of Vesalius -- Jobst de Necker -- Geminus and Bauman -- Valverde -- Coiter and Platter -- Bartolomeo Eustachio -- Other 16th century medical illustrations -- Surgery -- Pathological anatomy; obstetrics -- Teratology -- Materia medica -- "Compound" situs illustrations -- 16th-century title pages.…”

A history of human anatomy / by Persaud, T. V. N., Loukas, Marios, Tubbs, R. Shane

Table of Contents: “…Ancient records -- Pre Hipocratic era -- Hippocratic concepts -- Aristotle -- Alexandria -- Dawn of the Roman Empire -- Galen -- Early Middle Ages -- Mondino de Luzzi -- Leonardo da Vinci -- European Renaissance and human anatomy -- The immediate successors of Vesalius in Padua -- From Padua to Leiden -- The era of William Harvey -- Physicians, surgeons, and anatomists -- William Hunter and his legacy -- The transcendent greatness of John Hunter -- Professionalism and recognition -- Ireland and anatomy -- Scotland -- Robert Knox: honor and tragedy -- The anatomical literature -- The human body revealed -- Body snatchers and the trade in corpses -- Legislation of human dissection -- Germany -- Anatomy in the new world -- Fragments from the east -- Late 19th century -- Anatomy in the Third Reich -- The 20th century -- Anatomical societies and associations -- Modernization of anatomy curricula in medical schools.…”
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The art of anatomy in medieval Europe / by McCall, Taylor

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Stripped bare : the art of animal anatomy / by Bainbridge, David

Table of Contents: “…From antiquity to the Renaissance ; Leonardo da Vinci : animal as machine ; Albrecht Dürer : the wonderful line -- The horse stripped bare. …”

Stripped bare : the art of animal anatomy / by Bainbridge, David

Table of Contents: “…From antiquity to the Renaissance ; Leonardo da Vinci : animal as machine ; Albrecht Dürer : the wonderful line -- The horse stripped bare. …”
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Homosexuals in history : a study of ambivalence in society, literature and the arts / by Rowse, A. L. 1903-1997

Why? : what makes us curious / by Livio, Mario, 1945-

Filosofia, politica e cosmologia : ensaios sobre o renascimento. /

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Renaissance & early modern era (1308-1600) /

Table of Contents: “…The Black Death -- The Black Death: Two Readings -- Florentine Chronicle -- Europe in War and Peace -- Statute of Laborers -- Joan of Arc: Letter to Henry VI -- Malleus maleficarum -- The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field -- Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada -- Alhambra Decree -- Renaissance Arts and Letters -- Divine Comedy -- Petrarch's Letters -- Decameron -- Oration on the Dignity of Man -- The Praise of Folly -- The Prince -- History of Florence: "Lorenzo de' Medici" -- "Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor" -- "Of the Education of Children" -- New World Encounters and Conflicts -- Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America -- Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama -- Requerimiento -- New Laws of the Indies -- A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies -- Letter to King Philip of Spain -- The True History of the Conquest of New Spain -- The Protestant Reformation and After -- Ninety-five Theses -- Edict of Worms -- Act of Supremacy -- Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent -- The Life of St. …”
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Escape from reason : a penetrating analysis of trends in modern thought / by Schaeffer, Francis A.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Chapter one: Nature and grace ; Aquinas and the autonomous ; Painters and writers ; Nature versus grace ; Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael -- Chapter two: A unity of nature and grace ; The Reformation and man ; More about man ; Reformation, Renaissance and morals ; The whole man -- Chapter three: Early modern science ; Kant and Rousseau ; Modern modern science ; Modern modern mortality ; Hegel ; Kierkegaard and the line of despair -- Chapter four: The leap ; Secular existentialism ; Religious existentialism ; The new theology ; Upper storey experiences ; Linguistic analysis and the leap -- Chapter five: Art as the upper storey leap ; Poetry: the later Heidegger ; Art: Andre Malraux ; Picasso ; Bernstein ; Pornography ; The theatre of the absurd -- Chapter six: Madness ; The 'upstairs' in film and television ; Upper storey mysticism ; Jesus the unrefined banner -- Chapter seven: Rationality and faith ; The Bible can stand on its own ; Beginning from myself and yet ... ; The source of the knowledge we need ; The 'leap in the dark' mentality ; The unchanging in a changing world.…”

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The golden age of theoretical physics / by Mehra, Jagdish

Table of Contents: “…The quantum principle: its interpretation and epistemology -- 37. The dream of Leonardo da Vinci.…”
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