Replica made following the alleged 1493 Caprotti sketch
Leonardo da Vinci Museum
Via Cavour
Florence, October 2013
“News of a bicycle-like sketch said to have been discovered during the ten-year restoring period of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus popped up in 1974, when literary historian Augusto Marinoni gave a lecture in Vinci, Leonardo’s birthplace. From the chronology of disclosures and (in part circumstantial) evidence, it is now becoming clear that we are dealing with a recent forgery.” (The Leonardo da Vinci Bicycle Hoax, Cycle Publishing)
2 comments:
I don't even want to think about riding this thing along a cobblestone street. Yikes! Surely, Michelangelo would have invented some sort of suspension.
Yes, he didn't only commit la Gioconda...
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