During my last Summer London trip I visited an exhibition at the Buckingham Palace featuring a series of drawings and sketches of Leonardo da Vinci (Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing). I'm a big fan of Leonardo's drawing style as well as his many polymath interests in various scientific, technological and artistic pursuits, so I really enjoyed this exhibition, and it was amazing to see so many of his drawings, studies, sketches and annotations up close. So here's a selection of that :)! (click on pics or open in new tab for a bigger size):
-Studies of optics and men in action (c1508, red chalk, pen and ink): "On a sheet folded into four pages, Leonardo examines the propagation of light - multiple images passing through an aperture, the shadows cast by a sphere illuminated by two sources, and the optics of the eye. The stooping man in red chalk is by a pupil. The formal layout of the pages indicate that Leonardo is thinking how to present his material in a publishable form."
-Geometrical and other studies (c1482-5, pen and ink):
"This untidy combination of sketches, formal diagrams and irregular
blocks of notes is typical of Leonardo's earliest scientific drawings.
He shows how to find the height of a mountain by taking sightings of its
summit, and similarly how to calculate the size of the Earth by
measuring the elevation of the Sun from different points of the Earth0s
surface."
<3 <3 <3
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