Thursday 19 January 2023

LDV Bell

 Adaptation of Leonardo Da Vinci’s bell

I came across some illustrations of Leonardo Da Vinci’s pictographs (c1490). Some people believe that pictorial puns and other playful picture writing was a fun past time of the Renaissance. 

The bell amused me as the top looked like a baby with a bonnet.  Perhaps the pun was related to a simile of the bell to a baby's sound.  It could even represent a ‘baby bell’.

You can search up the original drawing online and decide for yourself what this represents.

This adaptation is drawn on a green umbrella fabric.