Pathways and Perspectives to Learning About Leonardo
Last updated: January 22, 1999


Suitable for the following Education Courses

  • Technology applications
  • Pre and inservice graduate education courses.
  • Reading through writing
  • multidisciplinary courses
  • Mathematic Courses in Problem Solving
  • Arts Practicum
  • Science Inquiry Based Hands/on Minds/on active research
  • Social Studies and Humanities Courses
  • Music Education
  • Use of the Internet Courses

Tour Description:
Overview
Introduction to the tour

Pathways and Perspectives to Learning About Leonardo will take the visitor through two researchers perpective views on the identity of the Mona Lisa model, additional research links on da Vinci and Mona Lisa, visitors contributions from the field, digital multilingual musical greeting cards, interactive quiz, and our guestbook. Our guestbook has been signed each day for over 16 months

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What's New?
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Our tour was developed as a result of winning the GII US Semifinalist Award in Education.

Our Site is accessible to all browsers and require no special pluggins.

  1. STOP 1
    Homepage
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    We begin our tour at the Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? Homepage. The scrolling message welcomes all visitors to our interactive arts driven web site which explores the mystery behind the smile, and features original music composed by Leonardo da Vinci. Site is programmed to be accessible to all. By clicking on the Vitruvian hands you are transported to various components of this ambitious student collaboration. Image mapping allows you to click on the graphic to provide the link for users with newer browsers. A text menu is provided for older browser users. The easiest way to navigate the site is by using the jumpbox or site map found below. This will bring you through our project components: By clicking on the first hand, visitors can discover a dozen da Vinci diversions through random research. The second hand brings you to the morphing of Leonardo da Vinci to the Mona Lisa. The third hand click will allow you to hear the original music score composed by Leonardo da Vinci. The fourth link allows you to learn about the research of Dr. Lillian Schwartz.

  • STOP 2
    Leonardo Learning Links
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    Leonardo Links presents a baker's dozen of delightful diversions which relate to da Vinci on the web. All were carefully researched and selected for their design and content. Visitors are greeted by the spinning compass. Clicking the compass will randomly link to one of the dozen resources found on this page as a surprise discovery. To see the site credits, click on the spinning globe. To see our Partners' Pages click the link below the table. Two diversions on this page which we will highlight are the Exploring Leonardo at the Boston Science Museum and the Fine Site.

  • STOP 3
    Exploring Leonardo
    http://www.mos.org/leonardo

    Here you will find the definitive Da Vinci Resource on the Web. The Site features many interactive engaging activities including the opportunity to write backwards, as Leonardo did in his notebook. Many worthwhile research links are featured on this site. This is the key reference to Da Vinci on the Internet.

  • STOP 4
    The Fine Site
    • http://kultur-online.com/greatest/fr-leonardo.htm

    Another culturally rich resource is the Fine Site. The pages are visually stunning and textually compelling. At this site you will find a plethora of diverse da Vinci resources. There are links to 30 other artists.

  • STOP 5
    Mona Lisa Smile
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    Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? A question pondered for nearly 500 years is explored through this Internet inquiry by my multiethnic students using 15 year old computers. Using a DOS-based program called RMorf (cost $1), students morphed the self-portrait of da Vinci with the famous painting. This collaboration resulted in the Morphing of Mona Lisa. This project is based on the research of Dr. Lillian Schwartz, a computer graphics pioneer. Her theory proposes that da Vinci painted himself in the painting.

    As our project evolves and we collect additional verifiable data, we add new theories of the mystery of the smile. Contributions from the field will bring you to this link.

    Since our site was featured on RadioNet's Human Factor on January 8, we provide a link to hear this broadcast.

    The Da Vinci Dispatch link gives our visitors a gallery glimpse of da Vinci on display.

    Leonardo Lecture link will give visitors a chance to hear a live library lecture which may be coming to their town.

    An interactive guestbook link as well as a Site Survey link is provided for visitors to leave their feedback and reaction to our project.

    Our Da Vinci Dissemnation process for our school project at the AT&T Make It Work conference and at the School Tech Expo in NYC can be found at this link.

    Read about our research and comparision between the theories of Dr. Lillian Schwartz and Rina de Firenze through the Scientific Inquiry link.

  • STOP 6
    Music Composed by Leonardo Da Vinci
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    Did you know that da Vinci wrote music? As a result of intensive research, students collected, transcribed and digitized the melody and provide a wav and midi version. This da Vinci score is an Internet exclusive. Page is accessible to the hearing impaired. Hand signing and sign language animations welcome these visitors.

    For older browser users, there is a non-frames version of this page.

    Links are provided for participants to create and send a digital musical postcard, in one of 17 languages, or take an online quiz with any browser. A reward is given for a perfect score.

    They may also create their own quiz for their friends to try out as well.

  • STOP 7
    Lillian Schwartz
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    Learning about Dr. Lillian Schwartz offers extensive information about the researcher and innovator who inspired this student project.

    Links are provided to her homepage to learn more about her work and a press release about her contributions.

    Permission was secured from those who own the copyrights to the graphics on display.

    You will also find a link to Robert A. Barron's Monalisas Page.

  • STOP 8
    Monalisas
    http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/MONA16.htm

    At this stop you can see the sequence of digitized photos that Lillian Schwartz had assembled at Bell Labs to illustrate that the Mona Lisa is a self portrait. You will also find ways in which the Mona Lisa has been used in our society as a cultural icon.

  • STOP 9
    Seattle Art Museum - Leonardo Lives
    http://www.seattle-pi.com/pi/leonardo/weblink.html

    The Seattle Art Museum and Corbis placed on display the Original Codex Manuscript in their Leonardo Lives exhibit. One of the finest west coast displays of da Vinci can be found at this site. Featured at this site is the works of da Vinci on display, a full description of the Codex CD ROM available through Microsoft

    Ovation TV and the Seattle Art Museum worked together to produce the
    Codex Comes Home    .

  • STOP 10
    Ovation TV ArtsZone
    http://www.ovationtv.com/artszone/programs/codex/codexpreview.html

    In a recently designed exhibit, ArtsZone began a collaboration with schools across American to exchange ideas and writings through journal diaries, as da Vinci did in his notebook. Students are encouraged to keep daily logs of their observations and reflection in their daily social and academic lives. They will then analyze cause and effect relationships based on these entries. After this analysis they can present their drawings and ideas, for a dialogue forum set up by the Artszone

  • STOP 11
    Surfing the Net with Kids Barbara Feldman
    http://www.surfnetkids.com/davinci.htm

    Here is another site designed for student researchers interested in Learning more about Leonardo, selected by Barbara Feldman's Surfing the Net with Kids. In conjunction with the San Diego Union Tribune, Barbara Feldman selected and reviewed her favorite da Vinci resources on the web. Resources which appeared in her newspaper reviews have star ratings.

  • STOP 12
    The Artchive

    http://artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/leonardo_ext.html

    The Artchive is a site suitable for college students and adult learners. It offers a compendium of da Vinci related research links. The site also has a collection of over 360 other artists as well.

  • STOP 13
    National Museum of Science and Technology of Milan

    http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo

    We end our da Vinci adventure around the web, to where it all began, Da Vinci's homeland.

    Milan is celebrating the Year of Leonardo. This museum has identified key da Vinci resources on the web. It includes a Leonardo On the Web page. Information about Leonardo's helicoptor and his other inventions can be found at this most prestigous site. Go to the Ideal Museum of Leonardo da Vinci from here or return to Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? for another chance to explore this 500 year old mystery.

  • STOP 14
    Take Our Quiz
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    This quiz is a java script which scores and tabulates the number of correct answers after participant answers three questions. A reward is given for a perfect score.

  • STOP 15
    Quiz for older Browsers
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    For users of older browsers we provide a CGI Perl script version of the same quiz. Any score places you in the Hall of Fame daily listings. which includes an opportunity to leave an email link.

  • STOP 16
    Rina de Firenze
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    Rina de Firenze, noted author and historian, comes to our site with news of her new book Mystery of the Mona Lisa, and her library lecture.

    Links are provided to read the comments of the readers of her book and to Amazon Books where she is being featured.

    Here you will also find Curricula Resource Links to English, Social Studies, Math , Business Education, Health links and Special Education Resources

  • STOP 17
    Scientific Inquiry
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    Central to our project's theme is the scientific inquiry which developed as a result of our contributions from the field. Using the available data, my students conducted a scientific investigation, comparing the theories of Lillian Schwartz and Rina de Firenze. Examine the guestbook to read how thousands of visitors have responded to the site.

    • STOP 18
    Site Map

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    Here you will find the 36 main sections of our site.

    • Homepage