Article: Poverty and family split spurred Leo to pounds 3m a film Titanic stardo m; Gran tells of screen idol's battle.(Features)

Article: An interview with Leonardo biographer Michael White. (People to Discover).(Interview)
Odyssey;  November 1, 2001 ;     572 words ......about science and scientists, including Leonardo: The First Scientist (St. Martin's Press, 2000). Why did he choose to write about Leonardo? Because I had just finished a book on...research on that book, I discovered that Leonardo was much more than just a painter, says...

Article: Leonardo springs to life // Working models give breath to the designs of Italian genius
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 5, 1987 ;     700+ words ......before the first airplane was built, Leonardo da Vinci already was thinking about parachutes...apertures have all been stopped up," Leonardo wrote, "he will be able to throw himself...height without suffering any injury." Leonardo's parachute probably would have worked...

Article: The great amateur. (Leonardo da Vinci) (The Creators) (Cover Story)
U.S. News & World Report;  August 31, 1992 ;     700+ words ...Leonardo sped from one creative experience to another Of the many mysteries surrounding Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), none is more remarkable than the...finished works and the grandeur of his reputation. Our awe of Leonardo is as much for what he was as for what he did, as much...

Article: LEONARDO DICAPRIO; Scumsville superstar; HIS PARENTS WERE HIPPIES AND HE GREW UP IN THE POOREST PART OF TOWN.(Features)
The People (London, England);  April 19, 1998 ;     700+ words ...We know all about Leonardo's life since he found stardom. But what was he like when he was growing up? Leonardo has experienced the best and worst of...baby and, as JOHN EARLS reports, while Leonardo now gets pounds 12 million a movie, his...

Article: A heretical mind; Leonardo da Vinci.(Two new books about Leonardo da Vinci)(Leonardo)(Leonard da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind)(Book Review)
The Economist (US);  December 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ......master's strange career TWO new books on Leonardo da Vinci have covers that are almost identical. Both authors have pored over Leonardo's notebooks, and claim to take us inside...book, a surprisingly short one, paints Leonardo as a genius, whereas the other, a doorstep...

Article: LEONARDO, GREEN LAKE'S PERIPATETIC `PROFESSOR'.(News)(Column)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 27, 1999 ;     673 words ......at the grim joggers pounding past. And Leonardo, the strolling Spanish teacher, describing...pillow case. Others tend to gawk at what Leonardo, himself, describes as an apparition...Spanish Lessons.'' Fit and charming at 73, Leonardo has been walking students around the...

Article: THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design
The Sunday Telegraph London;  September 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ...'Truly marvellous and celestial was Leonardo,' proclaimed Giorgio Vasari, his first...mixture of wonderment and exasperation that Leonardo da Vinci was capable of inspiring in...one hand, Vasari sang the praises of Leonardo's incomparable intellect: 'He was the...

Article: Genius without a system: Martin Clayton reviews an exploration through drawings of the range of Leonardo's scientific thought. It reveals his faith in observation and distrust of theory.(EXHIBITIONS)
Apollo;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Seasoned visitors to Leonardo exhibitions around the world will...The exhibition that they herald, 'Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and...more novel: an exploration of 'how Leonardo thought on paper'. This is one of...

Article: It's Leonardo in full flight.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  October 8, 2006 ;     540 words ...Byline: PHILIP HENSHER Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment And...Renaissance man', we are really thinking of Leonardo. He was, quite simply, interested...like to suggest that the interest of Leonardo, or 'Da Vinci', as they've started...

Article: Immigration issues bring Leonardo the gardener to mind again
Daily Breeze;  May 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ...I wrote this piece about Leonardo, our longtime gardener, in 2001. With...2752(unknown)--> You know Leonardo. He's the guy who drives the old pickup...houses on all those other blocks. Leonardo hails from Mexico. He understands...

Article: LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FLIGHTS OF THE MIND/LEONARDO
The Spectator;  December 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Renaissance man in all his richness LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FLIGHTS OF THE MIND by...23 (plus 2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 LEONARDO by Martin Kemp OUP, 14.99, pp. 286, ISBN...illustrious. In the specific case of Leonardo da Vinci, there is the additional problem...

Article: THE MANY FACES OF LEONARDO - PAST TO PRESENT.(Entertainment)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 23, 1997 ;     700+ words ...When Leonardo da Vinci joined the painter's guild in...mechanical skills, not mental ones. For Leonardo, art not only requires thinking, it is...hundred years later, he still does. ``Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo...

Article: Chalk It Up to Genius; Leonardo da Vinci May Be Overrated as a Scientist, But at Drawing He Was a Master
The Washington Post;  January 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ..."The truth about Leonardo da Vinci," a professor of mine once...scientific" discoveries that we give Leonardo so much credit for nowadays made any...driveways in the 1930s. Even as a painter, Leonardo's Fullerish tendencies got in the way...

Article: Leonardo da Vinci's wide and varied universe
The Boston Globe;  December 31, 1991 ;     698 words ...LEONARDO Discovering the Life of Leonardo da Vinci By Serge Bramly Edward Burlingame Books, 493 pp., illus...things better, the first thing that comes to mind when you name "Leonardo" is not a Ninja Turtle but Leonardo da Vinci, creator of one of...