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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, and painter. He has been described as a universal genius. Leonardo's famous paintings include The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. He designed many inventions that anticipated modern technology but were rarely constructed in his lifetime. He also helped advance the study of anatomy, astronomy, and civil engineering.

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• Art Gallery: Leonardo da Vinci

  http://www.christusrex.org/www2/art/leonardo.htm
  The so famous Leonardo masterpiece "annunciation" in a beautiful format. From the Uffizi Gallery.

• Artchive: Leonardo da Vinci

  http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leonardo.html
  Provides a biography and various links to his artworks.

• BBCi: Leonardo's Life In Science And Arts

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/
  Interactive site featuring paintings, imposters, quizzes, and the studio of the artist.

• British Library: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/leonardo/leonardo.html
  An illustrated biography, including photographs of three full-size models made for the BBC One series Leonardo, and online images of the Library's Leonardo notebook.

• Find A Grave - Leonardo da Vinci

  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3673
  Location and pictures of the Italian artist's grave including a biography.

• Leonardo da Vinci - Olga's Gallery

  http://www.abcgallery.com/L/leonardo/leonardo.html
  Collection of images of artist's works with a biography and historical comments.

• Leonardo Da Vinci's Life

  http://www.davincilife.com/
  Featuring a biography and discussing several images of the artist.

• Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman

  http://www.haberarts.com/davinci.htm
  Reviews by John Haber of New York City art galleries and museums.

• Leonardo da Vinci: the Codex Leicester

  http://www.odranoel.de/
  Presents artist's ideas and concepts about water, the moon, the earth and how things move written in the Codex Leicester.

• Leonardo the Ideal City

  http://www.museoscienza.org/IdealCity/
  A possible reconstruction from an "ideal city" that he could have projected assembling the most of this studies. Offers drawings of buildings and machines related to the city and urban life.

• Leonardo's Horse

  http://www.davincisciencecenter.org/inside-dsc/leonardo-and-the-horse/
  Project to actualize Leonardo's planned but never-completed sculpture of a 24-foot horse.

• Leonardo: the Man, His Machines

  http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/
  Extensive information centre on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci and his machines.

• Life of an Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

  http://www.artist-biography.info/artist/leonardo_da_vinci/
  Biography from Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Artists" and a gallery.

• National Museum of Science and Technology: Leonardo da Vinci

  http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/
  This museum in Milan has displays over one hundred models illustrating the work of Leonardo. Chronology of his life, manuscripts, his machines in VRML.

• OpenLearn: Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

  http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/world-history/leonardos-life-timeline-genius
  Provides a thorough timeline of the Italian artist born in Anchiano.

• Sketches of a Renaissance Man

  http://www.davincisketches.com/
  Collection of artist's drawings.

• The Last Supper

  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/504271.html
  Very close details of the figure of Christ, the faces of Philip and John, and the hand of Thaddeus.

• Washington State University: Leonardo da Vinci

  http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/world_civ/worldcivreader/world_civ_reader_1/leonardo.html
  Excerpt from Reading About the World, Volume 1.

• Web Gallery of Art: Leonardo da Vinci

  http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/l/leonardo/02/
  A collection of many works of the author, including paintings, drawings and sculptures. With notes for each work

• WebMuseum: Leonardo da Vinci

  http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/vinci/
  Collection of paintings and information on the great master.

• Wikipedia: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Vinci
  Encyclopedia article featuring his life, relationships and influences regarding the High Renaissance artist and scientist. Collection of his artworks are also available.

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