Leonardo

By Carlo Pedretti, Kunster, Erfinder, Wissenschaftler, Michael Desmond, Leonardo da Vinci

Subjects: Italian Manuscripts, Knowledge, Architecture, Art, Art collections, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, European, Art & Art Instruction, Male nude in art, Exhibitions, Theoriee˜n, Individual artists, Research, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Painting, Biography/Autobiography, Last Supper in art, Drawing, Windsor Castle, Renaissance Drawing, History of science, Human figure in art, Italian Mural painting and decoration, General, Criticism and interpretation, Science, Artists' preparatory studies, Critique et interpretation, Proportion (Art), Manuscripts, Windsor, house of, art collections, Illumination of books and mauscripts, Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries, Malerei, Renaissance art, Windsor Castle. Royal Library, Catalogs, Leonardo,, Non-classifiable, Italian Drawing, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy), Leonardo, Schilderkunst, Early works to 1800, Mechanics, Machinery in art, Painters, History - Renaissance, Biblioteca ambrosiana, Painting, early works to 1800, Renaissance Architecture, Inventions, Catalogues raisonnés, Anatomy, artistic, Artistic Anatomy, Proportion (Anthropometry) in art, Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany), Hydrodynamics, Leonardo da Vinci school, Drawing, italian, Peinture et decoration murales italiennes, Technology, Derniere Cene dans l'art, Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia), Engineering, Italy, Human anatomy, Peinture et decoration murales de la Renaissance, Drawing & drawings, Individual Artist, Last supper (Leonardo, da Vinci), Hydraulics, Artists, Machinery, Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, Bibliography, CHR 1999, Windsor castle, exhibitions, Private collections, Renaissance Mural painting and decoration, Influence

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.