WRITTEN IN FRENCH Leonardo da Vinci was a genius painter, an exceptional designer and inventor who developed flying machines as well as war and entertainment machines ahead of their time. The observation of nature, of plants like water, of human bodies and faces, coupled with an infinite curiosity, made him the perfect ideal of the Renaissance, at the same time as an artist of modernity unsuspected. It is the visionary dimension of Vinci's inventions and art that this superbly illustrated work highlights. It delves deeper, thanks to the artist's numerous drawings taken from codices and
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