Take a note, said Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso – to themselves
Roland Allen’s history of the notebook looks at the writers and artists who used them over hundreds of years, and the object..
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology. Leonardo is widely regarded to have been a genius who epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo.
Roland Allen’s history of the notebook looks at the writers and artists who used them over hundreds of years, and the object..