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The result of more than ten
years of research in the Biblioteca Reale and Regi Archivi of Turin, Italy,
this work -in the series of the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and his circle
arranged and introduced by Carlo Pedretti- presents a definitive edition of all
the Leonardo material assembled by Carlo Alberto of Savoy about 1840, including
the famous self-portrait and the study for the angel of the Virgin of the Rocks, which Berenson
acclaimed as 'the most beautiful drawing in the world'.
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It also includes an appendix
on the 'Drawings of artistic nature in the Codex on the Flight of Birds' as
well as an actual-size reproduction of the newly discovered Codex Saluzzo 312,
which is an unpublished collection of Leonardo's studies of military
architecture compiled about 1840.
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A leather-covered box (size 335 x 488 mm), with gold stamping, contains
23 plates with facsimile reproductions of the drawings, recto and verso, a text
volume of 138 pages, printed on handmade paper and bound in Fabriano paper, and
the volume reproducing the Codex Saluzzo 312.
Facsimile edition of 998 numbered copies for the whole world.
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