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The Da Vinci section is optimised for Black Chancery font. A reminder appears (at small size) on each page. font sample The font comes automatically pre-installed in the standard Windows configuration.

 

The Da Vinci section is optimised for frames navigation. But if you want to navigate without frames, albeit without the full navigation:
  • Beam to the Welcome page then click the "no frames" navigation option. Thereafter, select pages from the Index and use your browser's "back" button to return there after reading each page, or click "The End" palette image button at the end of each article.
  • From the frames version of the Da Vinci Index, use your browser's command to open links in a new window.
 Excerpt from THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS by Leonardo da Vinci: This article uses frames.

 

A distinction is made throughout the Da Vinci section (and indeed throughout the site) between the real-life Leonardo da Vinci. In the Da Vinci section, the real-life Leonardo is termed "Leonardo" or "Leonardo da Vinci", and the Voyager hologram is termed "Holo-Leonardo". Holo-Leonardo is played by actor John Rhys-Davies.
left: Leonardo - self-portrait

right: Holo-Leonardo

 

All pages have a scroll background image. Pages which are more about Leonardo than Holo-Leonardo have a (deliberately faded) line drawing self-portrait of Leonardo on the scroll background image as well - shown left at reduced size. Though often thought to be a self-portrait, it was probably drawn by someone in Leonardo's circle perhaps his close friend Francesco Melzi to whom, as the Maestro's executor, we can thank for starting the manuscripts on their way to the almost intact preservation they are in today.

Links to pages and articles in the Da Vinci section are usually indicated by a text-link or clickable easel image link as per the example shown right.  
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Articles in the Da Vinci section are usually one page long but a few extend to further page(s). This image indicates the end of an article:The End. Click for the DA VINCI INDEX.

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If you are at Leonardo's Room (Index of Leonardo's Life) but cannot find the way into the Secret Room, the Maestro has provided this clue. It is written in his usual mirror handwriting, but mouseover it to read it the normal way round.