Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius review – an eye for destruction
by Oliver Wainwright from Technology | The Guardian on (#139YM)
Science Museum, London
Combining Da Vinci's flying machines and designs for death and destruction, this model show eerily connects humanity's love of beauty and its thirst for war
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A masked figure stands, spotlit, in the gloom of the Science Museum's basement, looking part nuclear radiation agent, part Star Wars desert bandit. A domed leather hood covers its face, punctured by square blue goggles and a breathing tube sprouting from the nose, while a pair of hessian sacks dangle from its arms.
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