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LOOK at the drapery of that folded gray smock!
Look again, at the fullness and vigor of those hands.
All this over a warm and expansive void of blackness.
Breathtakingly good and marvelous to see.
If I could EVER paint a garment as well as that one gray smock, I’d be the happiest wannabe-illustrator in the Night Class!
**I haven’t even gotten to the “Unsolved Mysteries”.
I leave that part to the real men and women of Science.
“Vinci” was NOT Leonardo’s surname. Italian children who were “illegittimo” did not inherit the father’s surname. Like that other Michelangelo, Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Leonardo’s commonly used last name was the name of a place (the “da” in the name — Itey for “from” — is a clue). “Vinci” is the village within the city of Florenece where Leonardo’s mother lived.
“...a hidden order beneath the visible world....”
And how right they were. One of the definining characteristics of metals is that they all have a microscopic crystalline structure. For centuries people would examine a piece of metal that had failed structurally, see the sparkly bits and assume the metal had failed because it had “crystallized.” In fact, what had happened was the metal failed along crystalline boundaries, which made the structure visible to the naked eye when it broke.
That was fasinating for an old school draftsman from back in the day. I had cause to use the Golden Ratio from time to time myself. We had our own book of tables to use too as the painting illustrated. Smoley’s tables; parallel tables of logarithms and squares, angles and logarithmic functions, corresponding to given bevels, and other tables. For engineers, architects, etc
I’ve only recently learned about the Vesica Piscis and it’s now clear they used it during the Renaissance period.
https://www.sacredgeometryshop.com/sacred-geometry/vesica-piscis-sacred-geometry/
https://www.outofstress.com/vesica-piscis-meaning/
One of the most interesting projects for me was taking a piece of six sided origami, Putting a hole in the top and a DC motor on the bottom, I then collapsed it to half it’s height which produced openings on 6 sides. I started it up and it became a little amazing centrifugal fan.