{"id":6944,"date":"2015-03-05T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=6944"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:21:26","slug":"from-the-archives-a-thoughtful-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-archives-a-thoughtful-man\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives: A Thoughtful Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"leonardo\"<\/a>When Leonardo da Vinci is brought up, many think of his art: the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper just to name a few. However, I have discovered that da Vinci was more than just a man of art but also a man of thought, his paintings merely documentations of his findings.<\/p>\n

Here is a quote from da Vinci I found in the book Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Drawings and Paintings<\/em><\/a> by Frank Z\u00f6llner in the Archives & Special Collections.<\/p>\n

Unable to resist my eager desire and wanting to see the great [wealth] of the various and strange shapes made by formative nature, and having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern, in front of which I stood some time, astonished and unaware of such a thing. Bending my head back into an arch I rested my left hand on my knee and held my right hand over my down-cast and contracted eyebrows; often bending forth one way and then the other, to see whether I could discover anything inside, and this being forbidden by the deep darkness within, and after having remained there for some time, two contrary emotions arose in me \u2013 fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things within it\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

In a very poetic way, Leonardo da Vinci paints a colorful image of the desire for knowledge and how it is both frightening and wonderful at the same time.<\/p>\n

Stop by and take a look Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. in the Archives & Special Collections on the second floor of the Library.<\/p>\n

By Sierra Scott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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