The Da Vinci notebooks
/ Leonardo da Vinci ; edited and with an introduction by Emma Dickens.
- London Profile Books Ltd 2006
- 217 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Reprinted 2010
A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance and Western civilisation. His celebrated notebooks display the astonishing range of his genius. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and recent in-depth biographies have stimulated renewed interest in Leonardo and his complex and enquiring intelligence. This brand-new selection of sketches, diagrams and writing