Have you seen Leonardo? – avez-vous vu Léonard ?

Today I was walking towards the chapel at Amboise Castle where Leonardo da Vinci spent his last years when these two hove in sight. “Have you seen Leonardo” I asked. “Oh, not this afternoon.” A woman walking past said “Leonardo is dead.” Some people have absolutely no imagination. Cet après-midi je me dirigeais vers la …

Leonardo in Venice – Léonard de Vinci à Venise

Guess who we ran into in Venice today? Our friend Leonardo da Vinci, who arrived here in 1500 and offered his services to the Senate as an engineer with all sorts of ingenious ideas to overcome the Turks which never came to fruition. As we know, he was a great friend of François I and …