Wednesday 29 March 2023

Two Jugs


Adaptation of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Two Jugs sketch (c1490)

One of the pictorial puns in the Leonardo Da Vinci’s collection include jugs.  Beneath the sketch are what look the letters p v o.  

Some people believe that Leonardo wrote backwards / did mirror writing. I have added what that might look like using the online   https://www.dcode.fr/mirror-writing tool.

Some artists back in that era used a form of code to maintain secrecy of their ideas.  I think Leonardo had a combination of mirror writing and other code to maintain secrecy. Nowadays there is Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to aid people who create.

The jugs are sketched on a piece of purple brolly fabric.