This catalog for a 2006 exhibit explores da Vinci's thinking processes through his notebooks, where he concretized ideas on paper. It’s among the best books I’ve found on his integrative methodology.
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks at the National Gallery in London is a copy of his original painting that hangs in the Louvre in Paris. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Connecting Differences with da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks
Last year, I photographed mountains in central London—the distant blue jagged peaks in Leonardo da Vinci’s Virgin of the Rocks at the National Gallery.
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Leonardo da Vinci delighted in drawing intricate lace designs. Circa 1495, this knot is among six of its kind that were reproduced as engravings, one of which was a woodcut by German artist Albrecht Dürer, sans the “Academia Leonardi Vinci” motto.
New Da Vinci Blog to Aid Book Project
There is so much that a multifaceted man who lived more than half a millennium ago can teach our modern world that desperately needs a second Renaissance. That’s one reason I’ve started a new blog devoted to Leonardo da Vinci.
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