Painter, sculptor, anatomist, inventor, engineer, urban planner: Leonardo da Vinci explored every field of knowledge. A man of universal spirit, who considered painting to be the visual expression of a whole, he has intrigued many admirers with the esoteric side of his work. Ignoring the manuscripts and concentrating on da Vinci's paintings, Paul Vulliaud demonstrates throughout this study that da Vinci's work is packed with symbols, signs suited to the medium that the artist was using to express his thought.
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