Leonardo da Vinci

in a sentence

He had gone there to examine the diaries of Leonardo da Vinci.†  (source) Michael Scott, The Alchemyst, 2007

The author of the pages—Leonardo da Vinci.†  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

"We were forced to hit it with rocks, to make it go away," says Leonardo da Vinci, the man in the purring quartet.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

The sculptures of Michelangelo and the fictional inventions of Da Vinci made real.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

Leonardo da Vinci?†  (source) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

Eight standard weeks after she arrived on Renaissance, Sol and Sarai waved goodbye to Rachel and Melio at the Da Vinci farcaster multiport and then farcast home to Barnard's World.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.†  (source) Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four, 2010

Like a collector finding an undiscovered Da Vinci, like a mother looking into the face of her newborn child.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse, 2007

"Leonardo da Vinci drew cadavers," Ruth said softly.†  (source) Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, 2002

I spread her arms and legs like the Da Vinci drawing of the naked dude inside the box, contained within the circle.†  (source) Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea, 2014

But Luther was not a humanist like Ficino or Leonardo da Vinci.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

I would as soon destroy da Vinci.†  (source) William Goldman, The Princess Bride, 1973

Said I was no Leonardo Da Vinci and that bad art had to be punished.†  (source) Athol Fugard, Master Harold...and the Boys, 1982