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Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana
The Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana is a special collection at the University of California, Los Angeles, which focuses on Leonardo da Vinci – his life, art, thought, and enduring cultural influence. It is the most extensive research collection concerning Leonardo in the United States. It was donated to UCLA in several installments between 1961 and 1966 by Dr.
Why it's on the map
The Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana was officially dedicated in 1966 when UCLA opened in its Dickson Art Center a suite of wood-paneled and antique-filled rooms especially designed to house Belt's collection.
It also contains many fifteenth- and sixteenth-century architectural treatises, from Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria of 1485 to the treatises of Sebastiano Serlio, Andrea Palladio, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Vincenzo Scamozzi, and Vignola.
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