Leonardo, the stuff.Looks at a Seattle Art Museum's October 1997 exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's notebook, the Codex Leicester, purchased by Bill Gates; Leonardo merchandise on sale.JanaReenaHeardAlexNew York Times Magazine
Leonardo da Vinci(Vinci, Italy, April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519, Cloux, France) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: an architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" and as a universal geni...
Leonardo's full name at birth was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci," which means "Leonardo (son) of ser Piero from Vinci."[2] Bill Gates owns Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex Leicester." He paid $30.8 million for the masterpiece, which makes it the most expensive book ever sold. The book...
8a, 'General Introduction to the Book on Painting', The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), Vol. 1, 18. Also seen translated as “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast,” in ...
Leonardo was born in Anchiano, near Vinci, Italy. He was an illegitimate child. His father, Ser Piero da Vinci was a young lawyer and his mother, Caterina, was probably a peasant girl. It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a Middle Eastern slave owned by ...
• Leonardo Da Vinci As an Artist • Leonardo's Painting - Landscape with a View of the Arno (1473) - Baptism of Christ (1475-8) - Madonna of the Carnation (1473-8) - The Benois Madonna (c.1478) - The Annunciation (1475-8) - Portrait of Ginevra de Benci (1478-79) - Adorati...
The Codex Leicester, written between 1506 and 1510, is the only notebook manuscript by da Vinci that is still privately owned, and the only one kept in America. (Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation's chairman and chief software architect, paid $30.8 million in 1994 for the Codex Leicester manu...
Brett McKay: Got you. Your latest book, da Vinci, was fantastic. It’s just super thorough and I imagine this was a challenge because the subjects of your other biographies, they were alive in either the 20th century or within the past 200 years, so there were a lot of primary source...
Today, there are ten differentcollections of Leonardo’s notebook pages. Only half the pages—about six thousand pages—are known to exist.They are in different places all over the world. There is always the hope thatsomeday more notebook pages will turn up. Bill Gates, the founder of ...
Leonardo Da Vinci. Phoenix Press. ISBN 0-7538-1269X. A.E. Popham (1946). The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0224604627. Shana Priwer & Cynthia Phillips (2006). The Everything Da Vinci Book: Explore the Life and Times of the Ultimate Renaissance Man. Adams Media...