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The Drawings Of a Master; A fascinating show at the Victoria and Albert Museum leads a re-examination of the beautiful mind of the true Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci.

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From: Newsweek International
Date: 20060904
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Byline: Tara Pepper

For half a millennium, scores of writers have struggled to make sense of the mystery that was Leonardo da Vinci. Was the man who made the Mona Lisa smile an artist? Was he a wacky inventor or a scientist? A visionary--or simply the product of a traumatic childhood? Intellectual greats from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Walter Pater to Sigmund Freud have all tried to capture the character of the quintessential Renaissance man. More recently, Dan Brown's best seller "The Da Vinci Code" created a subversive side for him, asserting that da Vinci worked clues ...

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