Acknowledgments ix
Main Characters xi
Currency in Italy in 1500 xiii
Note Regarding the Cover xiii
Primary Periods of Leonardo's Life xiii
Timeline xiv
Introduction I Can Also Paint 1
Chapter 1 Childhood 11
Chapter 2 Apprentice 23
Chapter 3 On His Own 68
Chapter 4 Milan 91
Chapter 5 Leonardo's Notebooks 105
Chapter 6 Court Entertainer 112
Chapter 7 Personal Life 129
Chapter 8 Vitruvian Man 140
Chapter 9 The Horse Monument 160
Chapter 10 Scientist 170
Chapter 11 Birds and Flight 181
Chapter 12 The Mechanical Arts 190
Chapter 13 Math 200
Chapter 14 The Nature of Man 212
Chapter 15 Virgin of the Rocks 223
Chapter 16 The Milan Portraits 236
Chapter 17 The Science of Art 260
Chapter 18 The Last Supper 279
Chapter 19 Personal Turmoil 293
Chapter 20 Florence Again 299
Chapter 21 Saint Anne 315
Chapter 22 Paintings Lost and Found 325
Chapter 23 Cesare Borgia 335
Chapter 24 Hydraulic Engineer 347
Chapter 25 Michelangelo and the Lost Battles 355
Chapter 26 Return to Milan 380
Chapter 27 Anatomy, Round Two 394
Chapter 28 The World and Its Waters 425
Chapter 29 Rome 444
Chapter 30 Pointing the Way 463
Chapter 31 The Nona Lisa 475
Chapter 32 France 495
Chapter 33 Conclusion 517
CODA Describe the tongue of the woodpecker 525
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources 527
Notes 533
Illustration Credits 571
Index 573