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Drawn portraitAttributed to Francesco Melzi; colour-corrected reproduction · Public domain

Leonardo da Vinci

Artist and observer whose notebooks connect looking, drawing and inquiry into nature. These archive passages come from a 1906 English selection of his notes, not a continuous philosophical book composed by Leonardo.

1452 AD – 1519 AD · 391 collected ↗