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Introduction: I Can Also Paint and Chapter 1: Childhood - Chapter 6: Court Entertainer

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Isaacson, Walter. Leonardo da Vinci. Simon and Schuster, 2017. Print.

• The introduction, entitled I Can Also Paint, begins on page 1.

• Isaacson explains that the vast majority of his material for the book was obtained by studying Leonardo’s notebooks.

• Leonardo’s notebooks are housed all over the world, eventually requiring Isaacson to travel to Italy, Spain, France, and England.

• Isaacson describes being at Windsor Castle and looking at Leonardo's "Deluge drawings" (2).

• Leonardo completed said drawings near the end of his life.

• Isaacson recounts asking the curator "whether he thought Leonardo had done them as works of art or of science" (2).

• He explains to the reader that he immediately realized how stupid his question was and that his conclusion was affirmed when the curator answered...

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