Tom Rizzo with Leonardo da Vinci’s “tank” constructed by the Museum of Leonardo da Vinci in Florence from the ploymath’s instructions and drawings, created hundreds of years before the first actual tank. Courtesy of Tom Rizzo, Artisans of Florence
Imagine reading backwards in a forgotten dialect, piecing together Renaissance-era instructions, and then breathing life into machines first dreamed up 500 years ago.
That’s the work of three generations of Italian artisans who not only learned to read da Vinci’s “mirror” writing, but are now sharing his visions globally.
