Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneering painter and inventor—and, perhaps, bird lady. Avians appear in a number of the 13,000 notebook pages he produced, from the kite hawks of Codex Atlanticus (c. 1478) ...
The Ambrosiana Library in Milan is home to a priceless treasure trove: Leonardo da Vinci's largest collection of drawings and writings, the Codex Atlanticus. On his death in 1519, Leonardo bequeathed ...