In less than 17 years of institutional life, as the Hammer Museum has grown from orphanhood into contemporary art stardom, director Ann Philbin has won a reputation as a remarkably successful ...

Includes a text volume ([4], vii-lx, 219, [1] p. : ill. ; 45 cm.), a notarized colophon sheet ([4] p. : 1 ill., 2 facsims. ; 45 cm.), a facsimile of the recto and verso of a sheet of figure studies ...

From astronomy to hydrodynamics, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Codex Leicester includes his observations and theories on an astonishing variety of topics, writes B. N. Goswamy “To Leonardo a landscape, like ...

In what is a major coup for an Irish cultural institution, the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has secured the right to exhibit one of the great masterpieces of science, a work by Leonardo da Vinci ...

How did the Chester Beatty Library persuade Bill Gates to send the Codex Leicester to Ireland? Director Dr Michael Ryan explains… How did the Chester Beatty Library persuade Bill Gates to send the ...