Leonardo da Vinci left behind countless drawings and sketches for myriad of devices. He dreamed up schematics for machinery, transportation, flight, and apparently… women’s handbags. In fact, he sketched a design of a purse in the Codex Atlanticus (one of many collections of his notes and drawings). Fashion company Ghrardini has translated that design into a beautiful leather purse.
“While the shape recalls the lectern in “The Annunciation,” painted by Leonardo in the workshop of Verrocchio, its patterns feature rotating spirals and floral motifs, scrolls and foliage in metamorphosis,” Vezzosi said.
Boasting a unique closing system, the bag was designed at the end of Leonardo’s first Milanese period, around 1497. At that time, the artist was painting the tapestries in the Last Supper and knots designs in the Sala delle Asse in the Castello Sforzesco.”
See a video illustrating the creation of the exclusive piece after the break.
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Take da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, make it a 3D rendering and you end up with him on a modern day gyroscope. That non-plussed look you are used to seeing on his face is likely to change into one of a man about to lose his lunch.
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Leonardo Da Vinci may have thought he was illustrating the perfect man when he made his original drawing of the Vitruvian man shown in the center of the picture above. But with steroids being rampant in our society, his added friends have a physique that is just a bit more buff than the original. His friends look a lot more likely to compete in the Mr. Universe competition or play a futuristic cyborg assassin.
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Leonardo’s backwards writing or “mirror writing” has often been mistaken for code—meaning he had something to hide. However, the most likely reason for the backwards writing is that Leonardo was left handed and preferred to pull a pen as opposed to pushing it across the page (to prevent smudging). Like the writing in his notebooks, this watch does everything backwards—the numbers and the hands move counterclockwise.
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We all know da Vinci was one of the greatest artists and tinkerers of all time—is this t-shirt proof that he was really trying to build a robot to take out John Connor mankind?
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