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Or everyone who has read and enjoyed Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code,here is an exceptional instght into da Vinci's inner world ,in his own words and images.
He notebooks of leonardo da Vinci-atreasure house of unparalleled ingenuity,curiosity and creative energy-have inspired their readers for centuries.Fascinating and tantalising by turns,the individual pages of the notebooks,densely covered with da Vinci's ketches,jottings,calculations and detailed diagrams,are among the most prized possession of the wold's great art collectors.
Ainter,sculptor,engineer;mathematician,philosopher,inventor;architect,anatomist and naturalist-da Vinci's talents are seemingly endless.This new seletion form the notebooks,bursting with imagination and quirkiness,someitmes cryptic or even incomprehensible,is the perfect introduction to the mysteries of leonardo da Vinci.Theose who know him as the celebrated painter of The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa will be astonished and intrigued by this sprkling testament to one of greatest minds of Western civilisation.