Leonardo's shadow : or, My astonishing life as Leonardo da Vinci's servant

Title
Leonardo's shadow : or, My astonishing life as Leonardo da Vinci's servant

Personal Author EPSB
Christopher Peter. Grey

Summary
Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting, "The Last Supper," while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.

Other Title
My astonishing life as Leonardo da Vinci's servant
 
Leonardo da Vinci's servant

Year Published
2006

Physical Description
394 p.

Edition
1st ed.

Note
22.00

Age Interest level
012 up.

Grade Interest level
7-10

Program Information
Social Studies Grade 8

Personal Subject
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519-Fiction.

Subject
Household employees -- Fiction.
 
Artists -- Fiction.
 
Painting -- Fiction.
 
Individuality -- Fiction.
 
Historical fiction.
 
Domestics -- Fiction.
 
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
 
Identity -- Fiction.
 
Paintings.
 
Drawings.
 
Art.

Geographic Term
Milan (Italy) -- History -- Fiction.
 
Italy -- History -- 0-1559 -- Fiction.
 
Milan (Italy) -- History -- To 1535 -- Fiction.
 
Italy -- History -- 1492-1559 -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.

Curriculum Objective
Identitiy. local

Summary
Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting, "The Last Supper," while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.

ISBN
9781416905431

Publisher
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2006.


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