The Process
This project started with the collaboration of the public library and keeper of the Codex Atlanticus, the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan.
Provided with exclusive access to the collection, The Visual Agency carefully curated all the elements of this project, from the creation of the database through to the design and development of the application itself.
The page module
The indicators for the page number (rhombus and continuous line) and the year of writing (circle and dashed line) are positioned horizontally along the width of the page to offer a linear timeline of works and pages.
The bars that represent each subject are proportional in size to the frequency with which topics occur on each page.
A thousand pages in 40 years
Philological studies have identified the year of writing of every page. The graph shows the number of pages produced each year, from 1478 to 1519.
