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Da Vinci: Il Grande Apripista // The Great Trailblazer

Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson

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A Private Viewing of Leonardo's Vetruvian Man

The world's most famous drawing is kept in a locked room on the fourth floor of the gallery del academia in venice. It's leonardo's vetruvian man, his iconic drawing created around 14 90,. Of a man, spreadeagal, inside a circle and a square. And you realize that it's actually a self portrait. Is leonardo drawing himself, standing in the world and in the universe.

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