The Da Vinci Notebooks

For everyone who has read and enjoyed Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, here is an exceptional insight into da Vinci’s inner world, in his own words and images. The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci-a treasure house of unparalleled ingenuity, curiosity and creative energy-have inspired their readers for centuries. Fascinating and tantalizing by turns, the individual pages of the notebooks, densely covered with da Vinci’s sketches, jottings, calculations and detailed diagrams, are among the most prized possessions of the world’s great art collectors. Painter, sculptor, engineer; mathematician, philosopher, inventor; architect, anatomist and naturalist-da Vinci’s talents are seemingly endless. This new selection from the notebooks, bursting with imagination and quirkiness, sometimes cryptic or even incomprehensible, is the perfect introduction to the mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci. Those who know him as the celebrated painter of The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa will be astonished and intrigued by this sparkling testament to one of greatest minds of Western civilization.