Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master

Excellent

Excellent book for a fantastic price !

If you love Leonardo Da Vinci this is a must have book.

Lovely book.

Unbelievably impressed with the layout and material included within the book. After searching through reviews this definitely lived up to the good reviews posted previously.

A fantastic little book packed with wonders. Not the type of book you can just sit a read, but a great reference.

Very nice book and excellent design and material matching the contents!

Bought for my daughters Xmas. She loves it

Most interesting read. Loads of wisdom.

This wonderful book (which is also very inexpensive) is an outstanding way to understand how Leonardo saw, studied, examined the world and his beginning to develop a (never completed) series of books on painting, architecture, and other major topics. He sometimes talks to himself in his notes, sometimes addresses a potential student or apprentice. Sometimes he argues mutually opposing views on (presumably) different occasions. You begin to comprehend his relentless quest for understanding of all things in the world. The flexi binding is beautifully done, with elegant curved page edges. The sepia or b/w reproductions are very good. I have only one wish to improve this fine book: to know the codex from which each excerpt was taken. In that way one could infer how his thinking, seen in these notes grouped by this skilled editor together, is from one codex (and so likely done in a short period of time) or are from many different times and places.

I just love gawking at these sketches and writings that I can't read even with a mirror because of the difficult handwriting (mine is also bad apparently, so I guess I shouldn't be talking too much XD). But, fortunately, each sketches that features writing is accompanied by a translation. It's amazing that we still have access to so much art and writing by da Vinci after 500 years. I'm just awestruck by the fact!

Leonardo's Notebooks ist ganz einfach reizend. Es kombiniert Leonardo Da Vinci's Entwürfe und Zeichnungen mit seine Notizen, die bisher in seine viele Notizbücher durcheinander standen. Jetzt sind sie alle die entsprechende Zeichnungen zusammen gestellt. Ein wunderschön illustrierter Umschlag under Seiten von schwere Kwalität mit sehr scharfe Illustrationen vervollkommnen diese Ausgabe.

Amazing book. Everyone should read it