Leonardothek@ 2.0 is an advanced digital library that brings together, in a single integrated online platform, the largest surviving portion of Leonardo da Vinci’s manuscripts. It combines the 1,200 folios of the Codex Atlanticus (Ambrosiana Library, Milan) with the 600 Leonardo sheets preserved in the Royal Collection at Windsor, allowing scholars and the public to study them seamlessly.

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Leonardo was a genius. Using a mirror on his famous paintings should make appaears hidden pictures, according to this website, the inspiration from this tecnique came from the writings of ancient philosophers, there should be hidden images in the codex too, visible only trouugh the use of a mirror, pointed in the right direction, which sometime are the same actors of the paintings that suggest it. Click more to see mor pictures..

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