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#StorySettings Day 26: From Fats‘ review: “Katie and the Mona Lisa tells the grand adventures that Katie and Mona Lisa had in the #museum, as they try to find something that would make Mona Lisa smile. This book includes reproductions of five art pieces of the Italian Renaissance including St. George and the Dragon by Raphael and The Lion of St. Mark by Vittore Carpaccio.”
Full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-jau

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Samantha thanks so much for my #jolabokaflod gift!! Sorry for the later post, I was at my sister's today and forgot to open it before I left this morning. I'm looking forward to reading this book and the chocolates are my favorite 🤤😋
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“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.“

Roberta Edwards' 'Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?' is an informative biography that delves into the life of the Renaissance polymath. With intriguing details about da Vinci's art and inventions, it encourages curiosity and exploration. This book is suitable for discussions on the Renaissance, art, and the intersection of science and creativity.

I nearly broke down and bought this awesome Italian set of books (5 total) about Leonardo DaVinci in English when I visited the bookstore nearby. Just too darned heavy. So I took a photo. Maybe some place in the states sells Italian-published books

Today I learned that the king of France may have cradled da Vinci in his arms as the elderly artist died. After da Vinci delivered a short lecture on the probable causes of his own death.

The Last Supper, both in its creation and in its current state, becomes not just an example of Leonardo‘s genius but also a metaphor for it. It was innovative in its art and too innovative in its methods. The conception was brilliant but the execution flawed. The emotional narrative is profound but slightly mysterious, and the current state of the painting adds another thin veil of mystery to the ones that so often shroud Leonardo‘s life and work.

Da Vinci's to-do list:

* Describe the tongue of the woodpecker
* Go every Saturday to the hot bath where you will see naked men
* Inflate the lungs of a pig and observe whether they increase in width and in length, or only in width