Divine Proportion
Venice: Paganinus de Paganinus, 1509
Medium
Letterpress and woodcut in black with hand lettering in red ink, on ivory wove paper; binding in full buckram bookcloth
Dimensions
29.7 × 20.4 × 3.2 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 × 1 5/16 in.)
Department
Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Special Collections
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
272694
About the Artist
Leonardo da Vinci · 1452–1519
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) stands as the quintessential Renaissance polymath, whose genius spanned painting, sculpture, architecture, science, mathematics, engineering, anatomy, geology, cartography, botany, and writing. Born in Vinci, Italy, as the illegitimate son of a notary, Leonardo received limited formal education but demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent from an early age. His appr...