Leonardo Online

“Using digital technology, the Louvre Museum is making [Leonardo] da Vinci accessible as never before, photographing 12 of his notebooks – which have not been exhibited together for 50 years – so visitors can flip through them with the click of a mouse. The effect is breathtaking – like touring the great genius’s mind. Normally kept in a Bank of France vault, each yellowing sheet testifies to the insatiable curiosity of the artist, architect, engineer, inventor, theorist, scientist and musician some describe as the ultimate embodiment of a universal man.”