When Baltimore's Jonathan Pevsner, the resident scholar on the Discovery Channel series "Doing da Vinci," was just out of graduate school and making about $16,000 per year, he spent $3,000 to buy a museum-quality dream. This was a 1651 edition of "Traitté de la Peinture," one of the first...

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Jonathan Pevsner Digs Deep Into Leonardo da Vinci's Inventions, Art (Washington Post)

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