In addition to being a painter and sculptor, Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist and anatomist, using all his skills to describe the human body in exceptional detail. (Public domain image).
From drawings to cameras to detectors
Long before the camera, ornithologists and naturalists began making precision drawings of birds. These scientific illustrations were a synthesis of art and science. The camera became a tool for recording with even greater accuracy and with the ability to zoom to the finest details.
In particle physics, our cameras are called "detectors" and have phenomenal capabilities, but in the end we often like to visualize the hundreds of millions of numbers that emerge from our observations of collisions both in still images and in animations. In our quest, it is valuable to go one step further and visualize the "camera" itself, our detectors, in imaginative ways.