Leonardo Library — Google Arts & Culture

Choose your adventure through stories on Leonardo da Vinci's life

Let's start at the beginning

What do you want to know about Leonardo?

10 Facts About His Life

Where He Was Born

His Book Collection

His Life in France

His Life in Milan

Leonardo's Last Home

Leonardo's Last Days

His Final Resting Place

Get to know the polymath a bit more

Which of his interests are you interested in?

Architecture

Cartography

Cosmology

Anatomy

Geometry

Nature

Food

You found Leonardo's notebooks

Which codices do you want to open?

Codex Arundel

Codex Atlanticus

Codex Trivulzianus

Madrid Codices

Dive into his sketchbooks

What drawings do you want to see?

Self-Portrait

Head Studies

Masterpiece Sketches

Water Studies

Insect Drawings

Perspectives on Perspective

Drawings of Sound

Leonardo was a master painter

Which works do you want to explore?

One of His Earliest Works

Lady with an Ermine

Only Work in the Americas

Created for a Long Lost Chapel

He was also a master inventor...

Which machines do you want to discover?

Mechanical Inventions

Perpetual Motion Machine

Weaving Machine

War Machines

Machined Designs

...with a fascination for flying

Follow his journey of creating his dream machines

Leonardo's Dream

Studies on Birds

Studies on Flight

Flying Machines

Leonardo's legacy lives on

Find out who his work influenced

Artists of His Time

Andy Warhol

Theo Jansen

Château de Chambord

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