Sublime

Throughout his career, Leonardo would repeatedly and lovingly draw Salai. We see him age slowly while remaining, at each stage, soft and sensuous.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, born around 80 BC, served in the Roman army under Caesar and specialized in the design and construction of artillery machines. His duties took him to what are now Spain and France and as far away as North Africa. Vitruvius later became an architect and worked on a temple, no longer in existence, in the town of Fano in Italy

Leonardo did not invent the scientific method, nor did Aristotle or Alhazen or Galileo or any Bacon. But his uncanny abilities to engage in the dialogue between experience and theory made him a prime example of how acute observations, fanatic curiosity, experimental testing, a willingness to question dogma, and the ability to discern patterns acros

Léonard amuse la cour des Sforza non seulement avec ses dessins, mais aussi avec des divertissements littéraires lus ou déclamés. On en retrouve au moins 300 dans ses carnets sous diverses formes : fables, histoires drôles, prophéties, facéties et devinettes. Ces textes sont griffonnés dans les marges ou à côté de dessins apparemment sans aucun rap