For half a millennium, scores of writers have struggled to make sense of the mystery that was Leonardo Da Vinci. Was the man who made the Mona Lisa smiles an artist? Was he a wacky inventor or a S1.______ scientist? A visionary—or simply the product or a traumatic (受创伤的) child? Intellectual greats from Johann S2.______ Wolfgang yon Goethe to Walter Pater to Sigmund Freud all have tried to capture the character of the quintessential S3.______ (精萃的)Renaissance man. More recently, Dan Brown's best-sale. The Da Vinci Code created a subversive S4.______ side for him, asserting that Da Vinci worked clues of a age-old conspiracy in the Roman Catholic Church S5.______ into his large-scale 1498 painting The Last Supper. Brown's book is fiction. But new research in the S6.______ Italian master is indeed generating fresh ideas about what made Da Vinci tick. Since the 1880s, most of his 6,000 manuscripts have been published and translated, allowed S7.______ the nature of Da Vinci's genius to emerge from centuries of myth and speculation. These notebooks form. the basis of a new exhibition at London Victoria and Albert Museum, 'Leonardo Da S8.______ Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design,' which opens on Sept. 14. Through rarely seeing manuscripts and drawings, large-scale models S9.______ of his designs and computer animations, the exhibit illuminates Da Vinci's bold, wide-ranging thought process. 'Like Shakespeare or Newton, like all great figures, he remained perpetually surprising,' says Da Vinci S10.______ scholar Martin Kemp, the exhibit's curator(馆长). 【S1】