Leonardo
The Artist and the Man
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Contributions
- Sian Reynolds (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
1995-03-01 - Penguin (Non-Classics)
Language
English
Word Count
128,000 words, Guess
Page Count
512 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100140231757
- ISBN-139780140231755
- Goodreads388873
- LibraryThing14581
- Library of Congress Control Number95202489
and 3 more
- Better World Books343-BAC-590
- Better World Books9780140231755
- Open LibraryOL7350766M
Classifications
- LCCN6923.L33 B7313 1988
- LCCN6923.L33B7313 1988
Description
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.
First Sentence
TOWARD THE MIDDLE of the sixteenth centry, the prolific Gliorgio Vasari, a mediocre painter but a respectable architect (he designed the Uffizi in Florence), began to document the lives of the greatest Italian artists.
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