The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci

The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci book cover — barefoot books step inside a story the genius of leonardo da Vinci written by Guido Visconti with quotations some abridged from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci illustrated by Bimba Landmann

The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci — page 1 — Leonardo was born in 1452 in Vinci near Florence When he was twenty he painted an angel so beautifully that he surpassed his teacher Verrochio After that he painted many portraits and a battle scene too He drew madonnas and saints But he also drew the faces of ordinary people beautiful and ugly alike And he drew animals real ones and ones that he just imagined

The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci — page 2 — He studied nature especially plants He watched the wind and the waves as well as the sun the moon and the sky He studied the earth and the cosmos He drew cities and rivers seen from above and he planned churches and palaces

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