Tuesday, May 5, 2009

What is the name of the drawing that is by Leonardo Da Vinci that is full of Celtic knot work?

I have only seen this drawing once in a book and would love to know what it is or where I can view it online. I have done searches as well and am not having any luck.....so I came to you!

What is the name of the drawing that is by Leonardo Da Vinci that is full of Celtic knot work?
I believe that the work you are talking about is called the Sala delle Asse, but it wasn't a drawing, it was painted on a ceiling. That is if that's the work you are talking about. A part from that I don't think he has any other work with celtic knots unless you are thinking of something different.





This site has a picture of it as well as a small history of the work as well as other of this works.


http://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/willo...
Reply:I am also certain that you are referring to drawings that Leonardo made to illustrate a manuscript-treatise by the Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli - De divina proportione. A page of his sketches for what is described in the text of a catalogue of ta L.V exhibition held in London in 1989 as drawings of a "skeletal version of truncated and stelleted dodecahedrons (a body of 12 pentagonal faces) which has been truncated to produce alternate triangular and pentagonal facaes, and then stellated with 3 and 5 sided pyramids" - (if you understand that you're a genius!)


The page on view at this exhibition was on loan from the University of St. Andrews Library in Scotland.


For illustrations see link below:


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