06/10/2026
An extensive digital resource dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci has gone live, bringing together thousands of pages by the Renaissance artist cut into pieces and separated over 400 years ago. The project, known as Leonardotheka, merges the expansive Codex Atlanticus—the largest single collection of da Vinci’s writings, housed at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan—with around 550 sheets from the Royal Collection at Windsor, in the UK. The director of the Museo Galileo, who has led the Leonardotheka project, says it sets a “compelling precedent for how cultural institutions can and must retain intellectual ownership of their digital endeavours”.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/08/new-digital-archive-reconstructs-leonardo-da-vinci-manuscripts
