Leonardo

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

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

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.