Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci
Date: 1510
Size: 29 x 20 cm
Museum: Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Drawing
Water obsessed Leonardo throughout his life. His earliest dated drawing, of 1473, is a landscape showing a river cascading over rocks and streaming away down a valley; his final sheets, forty-five years later, are haunted by visions of deluges destroying the Earth. He surveyed the Arno for the Florentine government and planned a canal to render Florence navigable from the sea; and in the years around 1508-11 he studied hydraulics in great detail with the unrealised intention of compiling a treatise on the subject. Leonardo made hundreds of observations on the movement of water at this time, and although certain themes recur - in particular his astute analyses of complex motions in terms of linear and circular components - the superabundance of particular cases prevented him from ever realising a set of generally applicable laws. This most elaborate of Leonardo
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