Leonardo da Vinci

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Cover image: Alamy Images (Self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci/Leo Macario)

The publishers would like to thanks the following for permission to reproduce images: Alamy Images cover (Self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci/Leo Macario); Bridgeman Art Library Ltd pp.5 (Woman looking down/British Museum, London, UK), 007a (The Lady with the Ermine/Czartoryski Museum, Cracow, Poland), 17 (Studies of the coronary vessels/The Royal Collection 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II), 29 (An Acrobat and Wrestlers Performing, 15th century/Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK), 41 (A study of a woman’s hands/The Royal Collection © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II); Corbis pp.008a (The Last supper by Leonardo da Vinci/The Gallery Collection/Corbis), 10 (Horse in profile/Derek Bayes – Art/Lebrecht Music & Arts), 13 (Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci/The Gallery Collection), 16 (Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci/Bettmann), 18 (Armoured Tank designed by Leonardo Da Vinci on display in Hangzhou/WU HONG/epa), 26 (Diving suit/ James L. Amos), 31 (The Madonna and Child with Saint Anne by Francesco Melzi/Christie’s Images), 37 (Clos Luce Mansion/David Brabyn), 38 (Leonardo Da Vinci statue/Tetra Images), 39 (Statue of a horse/Ocean), 44 (Medieval battle re-enactment/Jim Richardson/National Geographic Society), 44 (ASIMO robot/Splash News), 44 (Statue of a horse/Ocean); Getty Images pp.32 (Anatomical studies/Hulton Archive), 34 (Santa Maria della Grazie/Leonardo da Vinci), 44 (Castle/Buena Vista Images); Kobal Collection p.33 (The Da Vinci Code/Columbia); Oxford University Press pp.44 (Painting/Corbis), 44 (Workshop/James Hardy); Press Association Images p.20 (Parachute/ Laurent Gillieron/AP); Rex Features pp.28 (The Musician by Leonardo da Vinci/KeystoneUSA-ZUMA), 35 (Da Vinci’s Workshop/Sipa Press); Robert Harding World Imagery pp.0 (Cathedral of Santa Maria, Florence/Roy Rainford), 2 (Vinci, city of Leonardo/age fotostock), 14 (Fossil/ CuboImages), 50 (Florence, Tuscany, Italy/Stefano Cellai); Science Photo Library p.23 (Leonardo’s plan for canals in a town/Sheila Terry); The Art Archive pp.24 (Atlantic Codex/Leonardo da Vinci/DeA Picture Library/Metis E Mida Informatica/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana), 27 (Cesare BORGIA, 1475–1507/Accademia Carrara Bergamo Italy/Collection Dagli Orti)

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