Leonardo
About this book
Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific observations and theories in 1994 from the estate of Armand Hammer for $30.8 million. Last year Gates loaned the work to Australia's Powerhouse Museum, which prepared this companion to its exhibition. No longer in codex form (the pages were bound in the 1600s, but Gates had the binding dismantled for digital reproduction), the manuscript ranges over topics from fossils to astronomy. Each recto of this edition reproduces one of Leonardo's pages, written in mirror-script Italian with sketches jotted in the margins; a discussion (but not a translation) appears on the verso. It includes an introduction to Leonardo's life, but no index.
Subjects
- alte pinakothek (munich, germany)
- architecture
- art
- art collections
- artistic anatomy
- artists' preparatory studies
- biblioteca ambrosiana
- biography
- catalogs
- catalogues raisonnés
- criticism and interpretation
- derniere cene dans l'art
- drawing
- early works to 1800
- engineering
- exhibitions
- gosudarstvennyĭ ėrmitazh (russia)
- human anatomy
- human figure in art
- hydraulics
- hydrodynamics
- illumination of books and mauscripts
- influence
- inventions
- italian drawing
- italian manuscripts
- italian mural painting and decoration
- italy
- knowledge
- last supper (leonardo, da vinci)
- leonardo,
- leonardo, da vinci, 1452-1519
- leonardo da vinci school
- machinery
- machinery in art
- male nude in art
- manuscripts
- mechanics
- painters
- painting
- peinture et decoration murales italiennes
- proportion (anthropometry) in art
- proportion (art)
- renaissance architecture
- renaissance drawing
- research
- science
- technology
- windsor castle
- windsor castle. royal library