Leonardo da Vinci saw in animals the ‘image of the world’
- Written by Arielle Saiber, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Bowdoin College
From cats to dragonflies, Leonardo sketched scores of animals.Leonardo da Vinci/Royal Collection TrustAbout six months ago I stopped eating meat. I was teaching a graduate course at UCLA that investigated how Italian Renaissance writers conveyed their concepts about the human through writing about the nonhuman – plants, animals, objects,...
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