Title: Leonardo
Description: Bill Gates bought the Codex Leicester a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci's scientific observations and theories in 1994 from the estate of Armand Hammer for $30.8 million. Last year Gates loaned the work to Australia's Powerhouse Museum, which prepared this companion to its exhibition. No longer in codex form (the pages were bound in the 1600s, but Gates had the binding dismantled for digital reproduction), the manuscript ranges over topics from fossils to astronomy. Each recto of this edition reproduces one of Leonardo's pages, written in mirror-script Italian with sketches jotted in the margins; a discussion (but not a translation) appears on the verso. It includes an introduction to Leonardo's life, but no index.
Subjects: Exhibitions, Knowledge, Early works to 1800, Windsor Castle, Biblioteca ambrosiana, Catalogs, Engineering, Hydraulics, Italian Manuscripts, Proportion (Art), Research, Inventions, Human anatomy, Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany), Manuscripts, Illumination of books and mauscripts, Artistic Anatomy, Architecture, Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia), Art, Influence, Catalogues raisonnés, Italy, Painters, Art collections, Male nude in art, Windsor Castle. Royal Library, Criticism and interpretation, Proportion (Anthropometry) in art, Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, Hydrodynamics, Italian Drawing, Science, Renaissance Drawing, Leonardo,, Renaissance Architecture, Painting, Drawing, Mechanics, Human figure in art, Machinery in art, Biography, Artists' preparatory studies, Technology, Leonardo da Vinci school, Machinery, Last supper (Leonardo, da Vinci), Italian Mural painting and decoration, Peinture et decoration murales italiennes, Derniere Cene dans l'art, Critique et interpretation, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy), Renaissance Mural painting and decoration, Last Supper in art, Peinture et decoration murales de la Renaissance, CHR 1999, Schilderkunst, Theorieen, Individual artists, Renaissance art, Leonardo, Drawing & drawings, History of science, Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries, History - Renaissance, Biography/Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Art & Art Instruction, Individual Artist, European, General, Private collections, Non-classifiable, Painting, early works to 1800, Malerei, Artists, Drawing, italian, Windsor castle, exhibitions, Anatomy, artistic, Windsor, house of, art collections, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Bibliography, Codice atlantico, Codex Leicester, Contributions in Renaissance architecture, Historisches Museum der Pfalz (Speyer, Germany)
Places: Italy, England, Saint Petersburg, London, Russia (Federation), Turin
People: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Jesus Christ, Mary Mother of Jesus Christ, House of Windsor, Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint, Giorgio Castelfranco (1896-), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519,), Paolo D'Ancona
Time periods: 15th century