da Vinci Codex

There really isn't a way to describe the feeling of looking at one of da Vinci's notebooks, to see his peculiar backwards writing and try unraveling the meaning in his margin notes and doodles.  It is humbling and daunting all at once. If that were the only piece  on exhibition from the V & A in London, it would probably be enough of a reason to visit the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, but there are 40+ more artifacts, including the Limoges enamel reliquary made to house the relics of Thomas Becket; and a fifteenth-century bronze fountainhead in the form of a winged infant, by the Italian Renaissance master sculptor Donatello.
You can get a taste of this exhibit courtesy of Museum Chief Curator Roger Ward and WPBT's uVu by clicking on the link here.