A Portrait of Leonardo

Book Author & Illustrator Donovan Bixley
Rights Available World
Awards Donovan Bixley is winner of New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: Illustration (Russell Clark Award) 2016 and Tatoulu Children’s Choice Award 2018. Finalist in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards for Faithfully Mozart in 2006.

Strip back the layers of varnish and discover the man behind the masterpieces, the personality that drove one of the greatest minds in history. Donovan, as he did with Mozart and Shakespeare, sets out to discover the person behind the myth. Using Leonardo’s own massive supply of notebooks as well as myriad other writings from the time, Donovan shows why, as well as what, Leonardo created in so many areas of life. Like no other biography, this illustrated book shows the real Leonardo.

About the Author
Donovan Bixley is an illustrator and writer based in Taupo. Donovan has numerous bestsellers to his name, including the recent Māui series, and Much Ado About Shakespeare. Donovan created Pussycat, Pussycat (2015), Little Bo Peep (2014), The Wheels on the Bus (2010) and Old Macdonald’s Farm (2011) and The Great Kiwi ABC (2016).