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Firenze, Giunti Barbera, 1973-'80. 12 facsimile volumes , format 44x65 cm., and 12 volumes of text format 22x30 cm. , diplomatic and critical transcription edited by Augusto Marinoni, hand-bound in full leather, with gold embossing on the spine. Limited edition of 998 copies.
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Work begun in 1923 with the title: The manuscripts and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci published by the Royal commission of Vinci under the auspices of the Ministry of Public Education.
The Codex Atlanticus is the largest collection of Leonardo's known documents. At the end of the 1500s in Madrid, the sculptor Pompeo Leoni created a curious and spectacular composition with numerous sheets and fragments containing Leonardo's almost total intellectual production, which represents every aspect of the Leonardo da Vinci genius: the passionate interest in mechanics and mathematics, the astronomy, physical geography, botany, chemistry and anatomy, as well as the visual arts. Drawings for innovative technical projects, hydraulic devices, weapons, fortifications, flying machines, boats and automatons, as well as studies with theoretical and practical annotations for The Adoration of the Magi, Leda and the Swan, and the Battle of Anghiari. Furthermore, inside, the projects for the equestrian monuments, never executed, to Francesco Sforza and Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, as well as the architectural projects for the urban renewal of Milan and the royal residence of Romorantin in France.
The Codex Atlanticus is the largest collection of Leonardo's known documents. At the end of the 1500s in Madrid, the sculptor Pompeo Leoni created a curious and spectacular composition with numerous sheets and fragments containing Leonardo's almost total intellectual production, which represents every aspect of the Leonardo da Vinci genius: the passionate interest in mechanics and mathematics, the astronomy, physical geography, botany, chemistry and anatomy, as well as the visual arts. Drawings for innovative technical projects, hydraulic devices, weapons, fortifications, flying machines, boats and automatons, as well as studies with theoretical and practical annotations for The Adoration of the Magi, Leda and the Swan, and the Battle of Anghiari. Furthermore, inside, the projects for the equestrian monuments, never executed, to Francesco Sforza and Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, as well as the architectural projects for the urban renewal of Milan and the royal residence of Romorantin in France.
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