Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Carlo Urbino feature in a wonderful exhibit at The Morgan Library, titled Leonardo da Vinci: Treasures from the Biblioteca Reale, Turin, from October 25, 2013 through February 2, 2014. Works by Leonardo da Vinci on view include his notes on the flight of birds and several of his beautiful portrait studies, including the “Head of a Young Woman (Study for the Angel in the ‘Virgin of the Rocks’)” from the 1480s.
Carlo Urbino’s Codex Huygens demonstrates his study of Leonardo’s methods and diagrams. Many of the folios show the careful intersection of scientific inquiry and mathematical rationality with the intuition and subtlety of fine art: geometric constructions and notes demonstrating human proportion and biomechanics, one-point perspective for use in architectural sculpture, and thorough treatments of another of Leonardo’s favorite subjects: the horse.
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