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DI VINCI CELEBRAZIONI LEONARDIANE (celebrating Leonardo) 22 aprile – 16 luglio 2006 |
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XLVI Lettura Vinciana Leonardo's Reinvention of the Female Figure: Leda, Lisa and Mary by Jonathan K. Nelson Saturday 22 April 2006, 10.30 a.m. Vinci, Biblioteca Leonardiana |
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| In portraits, religious and mythological works, and anatomical studies, Leonardo explored and reinterpreted the female figure. His own writings -including several passages on the proper ways to depict women and girls-help us interpret these artistic creations. The poses and body types in Leonardo's paintings and drawings, and the themes they address, had a major impact on Renaissance art. Previous studies have not considered these individual works as a group, though the importance of certain compositions, especially that of the Mona Lisa, has long been recognized. Several fascinating inventions, such as the pose of the Christ Child who rotates in the arms of his mother, or who plays with the young John the Baptist, have received little attention. These solutions, as interpreted in the paintings of Filippino Lippi, enjoyed great popularity. This attention of Leonardo to children and motherhood, found in several religious works, also informs his variations on the Leda. These creations were among the first to show a completely nude and uncovered female figure. The revolutionary representation the Standing Leda, with prominent and detailed musculature, reflects Leonardo's anatomical interests as well as his critical response to Michelangelo. These masters transformed the depiction of the female body in European art .. >>> | ||
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Una Piazza per Leonardo Mimmo Paladino Vinci 19 marzo 2006 |
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Si inaugura il prossimo 19 marzo Piazza dei Guidi a Vinci ridisegnata da Mimmo Paladino. Un suggestivo intervento di riconfigurazione urbana che segna di fatto il nuovo accesso al Museo Leonardiano. L'intervento in Piazza dei Guidi si inserisce nel progetto di ampliamento del Museo Leonardiano che ha visto la recente apertura del nuovo ingresso e dei nuovi spazi espositivi nella sede di Palazzina Uzielli, a pochi centinaia di metri dal Castello dei Conti Guidi, finora sede unica del museo. A tale scopo il Comune di Vinci, in collaborazione con l'Associazione Arte Continua di San Gimignano nell'ambito del programma Arte all'Arte Rinascimento Nascimento, e con il co-finanziamento della Comunità Europea, ha indetto nel 2003 un concorso di idee per la realizzazione in Piazza dei Guidi di un’opera di alto valore artistico, capace di dialogare simbolicamente col museo stesso e con l’eredità di Leonardo a partire dalla contemporaneità. Il concorso, al quale hanno preso parte alcuni fra i maggiori protagonisti del panorama artistico internazionale contemporaneo, ha visto vincitore il progetto di Mimmo Paladino. L'intervento è ora realizzato e ha dato vita ad un nuovo spazio urbano, un'inedita e autonoma scenografia in linea con l’identità pubblica del luogo e con la figura artistica e scientifica del suo principale ispiratore, Leonardo da Vinci. L'artista, riconfigura la piazza con un reticolo di geometrie, con scomposizioni e ricomposizioni di piani in lastre di cardoso sui quali incide, con tasselli di vetro o lama d’argento, motivi che ripropongono il suo ben noto universo iconico. Vinci e la Toscana di Leonardo rendono così un omaggio del tutto inedito al XXI secolo, con un museo all’aperto che raccoglie spoglie ideali di un passato prestigioso per farne pietre vive di una nuova estetica architettonica .. >>> |
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Leonardo and optics in Vinci International optics day and opening of the newoptics room in Leonardo's Museum: "Leonardo's optics between Alhazen and Keplero" Vinci, Biblioteca Leonardiana and Museo Leonardiano Saturday 4 June 2005, 10 am - 1 pm |
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The new room of the Museo Leonardiano devoted to Leonardo's studies of optics contains exhibits
that piece together some of the main aspects of the long and fruitful studies that occupied him
throughout his life, ranging from his experiments into light and shadow to the more general
studies of the interaction between light and objects and his investigations of the visual process,
the anatomy of the eye and optical illusions. A fitting conclusion to all this is a virtual
reconstruction of his experiments with the camera obscura, which represent a synthesis of all
his research and an admirable example of experimental method. The word "experiment" itself,
when referred to Leonardo's work, assumes connotations similar to modern-day ones. By focusing on Leonardo's studies in the historical context in which he operated, the aim of the exhibits is to show how the majority of the fundamental ideas that have led to advances in our understanding of optics found expression in Leonardo's multifarious activities. |
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SERGIO VACCHI Leonardo Codice Verso. Il Ritorno e l'Andata Paintings and Drawings 1993 - 1997 Vinci, Museo Leonardiano and Leonardo's Birthplace at Anchiano 29 May - 25 September 2005 Open Every Day 9.30 a.m - 7.00 p.m. |
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This exhibition by Sergio Vacchi, one of post-war Italy's leading contemporary artists,
features a large and previously unseen cycle of work produced between 1993 and 1997.
Vacchi re-examines the figure of Leonardo da Vinci and the cluster of symbolic images that
have become associated with him in the modern age. This affords a suitable perspective for a
meditation on today's world and on the human condition. The exhibition is a new experience for Vinci as well. Indeed, the large canvases and some of the preparatory sketches are on display in both of the current sites of the Museo Leonardiano - Palazzina Uzielli and the ancient Castello dei Conti dei Guidi - and in Leonardo's birthplace at Anchiano. The mental and pictorial path taken by Vacchi thereby embraces in a certain sense the itineraries lying between the ancient town of Vinci and the slopes of the Montalbano, where Leonardo, even after his adolescence, returned on a number of occasions, as some of his celebrated drawings reveal .. >>> |
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DI VINCI CELEBRAZIONI LEONARDIANE (celebrating Leonardo) 16 April - 9 July 2005 |
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XLV LETTURA VINCIANA Bibliothèque Léonard de Vinci Vinci Samedi 16 avril 2005, à 10.30 heures |
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Ce texte du Libro di Pittura et le dessin qui l'accompagne, extraits du Libro A
et daté vers 1508-1510, serviront à engager une proposition de lecture des écrits de
Léonard traitant de l'air, du souffle et du vent, à la fois pour la description que le peintre
en donne et pour la place qu'il leur réserve dans le processus de sa création.
Ainsi seront abordés les phénomènes naturels ou atmosphériques engendrés par le mouvement de
l'air, comme la poussière, la fumée, le vent, la pluie et, en élargissant le propos, les
interrogations qui en découlent et qui n'ont pas cessé d'occuper l'esprit du peintre.
Je pense en particulier au lointain, à l'infini, au confus, et au thème du vol en lui-même:
dispositifs et engins conçus pour s'élever du sol, vol des oiseaux, allégories et figures
volantes. Par extension, nous souhaiterions aborder le dessin de Léonard de Vinci à partir de cette même notion du souffle, afin de tenter une interprétation des débuts d'une oeuvre qui relèverait de l'impulsion, du signe, de la brièveté de la notation . Là se trouverait l'occasion d'évoquer la genèse de quelques unes de ses grandes réalisations, comme l'Adoration des Mages ou la Bataille d'Anghiari, par exemple. Là se trouverait en outre l'occasion de rappeler le rôle précurseur du dessin dans le travail du peintre, celui-ci anticipant souvent le texte, comme cele a été récemment montré à propos des manuscrits. Ainsi, dans cette intervention, nous proposerions un essai d'interprétation du dessin comme expression du souffle et, en même temps, tenterions de cerner la place de l'air, sous ses différentes formes, dans les recherches de Léonard, en particulier dans les textes relatifs aux notations lumineuses et au sfumato. |
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VINCI
NOTEBOOK Photographs by Amanda Gorge Museo Leonardiano (Palazzina Uzielli), Vinci 4 July - 31 october 2004 |
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was convinced that Amanda George would fulfill the expectations of those who had
invited her to produce an album for the volume Vinci: the town of Leonardo. I
too, by now, am familiar with the seasonal colors that now striate, now illuminate
the fields and quiet valleys of the town. I too know the skies that open above a felicitous landscape. But I am also aware – and have been for some time – of Amanda’s inclinations, and expected that she would find herself at home here. For this reason I was sure that the project would be welcome, and the results poetic. In fact, her impressions of Vinci are poetic. I will write at greater length in the catalogue of the exhibition, to be published soon. Here (by way of invitation) I repropose – precisely because Amanda has chosen to photograph the connotations – my thoughts from a few years ago, when I thought about the absence of the human figure in her natural epiphanies. A nature in which only the memory of man’s intervention remains, and only the classical sort, not disrespectful incursions. Only traces of his passage, as primitive as the earth that bears its marks. Mankind’s presence is not sought; it is almost as though a human shadow might break the enchantment of a golden age. Only mankind’s labors are evoked; it is the only quality that can keep in step with the austere beauty of the hills with their red-brown clods just turned and broken by the harrow, or the tender green of grain recently sprouted. Grasses that the wind caresses and combs at sunset. And the light, clear and raking over the velvety swells, illuminates the crests and drops the troughs into darkness. When the grain is then mature, and the tips of its sharp blades are almost reddened, the eye lifts to encompass the whole field where the night winds have milled, a summer rain beating the thin stalks, and the plain is spotted with areas of reclining grass, like the nap of a colt’s fleece .. >>> Antonio Natali |
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Leonardo’s
Automobile Museo Leonardiano 2nd Floor, Palazzina Uzielli Vinci From June 27th 2004 and for all summer |
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Automobile" is a travelling exhibition conceived of and produced by the Istituto
e Museo di Storia della Scienza with the support of the Banca di Credito
Cooperativo di Cambiano, which has promoted this initiative to celebrate
the 120-year anniversary of its foundation. Does it really work the "automobile" of Leonardo da Vinci? The Leonardian invention, designed in 1478, wasn’t conceived to be used as a vehicle, but as a sophisticated device in order to amaze people at the shows of the court. For the first time, after more than 5 centuries from this invention, a group of researchers guided by the Professor Paolo Galluzzi, director of the History Museum of Science of Florence, realised three models, of various dimensions: of the self-moving wagon. These models have been tested and it was proven the mechanical efficacy of the invention therefore it was contradicted the thesis of some scientists of the last century according to whom the vehicle devised by Leonardo couldn’t work. Therefore the most recent studies realised by Institute and History Museum of Science definitively dismissed the old models, still exposed in the museums dedicated to the scientist, set up on wrong interpretations. The new model by the Istituto and Museo di Storia della Scienza (Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Cambiano's collection) and the pre-existent version located to the Museo Leonadiano in Vinci (Comune di Vinci and Museo Leonardiano's collection), will be exibited together. |
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DI VINCI CELEBRAZIONI LEONARDIANE (celebrating Leonardo) April 17th – July 3rd 2004 |
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JACOPO
DA EMPOLI (1551 – 1640) Pittore d’eleganza e devozione |
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Chiesa di S. Stefano e Convento degli Agostiniani March 21 – June 20 2004 With the exibition dedicated to Jacopo da Empoli (Florence 1551-1640) the city of Empoli – the place where the painter’s family was from – pays homage to one of most important Figures of Florentine pailnting at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century, honouring his stature as an artist with an important collection of his masterpieces and a number of studies proposing modern reflections on his school thought/style.. >>> |
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'Reflections
of a Gallery' Paintings of the Bardini Inheritance, Historical Museum of the Hunting and the Territory Villa Medicea Cerreto Guidi (FI) From May 28th 2004 |
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| The exhibition is promoted by the special Superintendence of the Florentine Museum Pole in partnership with the town of Cerreto Guidi. There are exposed forty paintings of the 15th century belonged to the grate Italian antiquarian Stefano Bardini. This collection has a straight bond with Villa de Medici as some of the acquired paintings represent the Medici family, but also, it has significant works by Vincenzo Mannozzi, Francisco Verla, Angelic Kauffman, Guercino, Domenichino, Salimbeni Luck, Francisco Solimena, Alexander Longhi, Giuseppe Bezzuoli and others.. | ||
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Vinci
di Leonardo storia e memorie |
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Biblioteca Leonardiana sabato 24 aprile 2004, ore 10:30 Presentazione del volume a cura di Romano Nanni e Elena Testaferrata Vinci di Leonardo storia e memorie interviene Alessandro Prosperi.. >>> |
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OUTBOUND.
Fuori dai luoghi comuni By Silvia Bottinelli Cerreto Guidi – Villa Medicea From February 8 to April 18 2004 |
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Villa Medicea di Cerreto Guidi hosted in its charming rooms the exhibition of
nine young artists who revealed the story of the villa using a contemporary language.
The villa was build over the relics of Count Guidi Castle by Cosimo de Medici.
The court of the Duke had often moved here for short stays, here is also the place
where Isabella de Medici (sister of Cosimo and wife of Paolo Giordano Orsino)
died. Tuscany begins concerning about the picturesque little villages as well, where, in the shadow of a great past, the contemporary culture is in full motion. The exhibition aim is both promoting the artistic values of the territory and offering to the visitors the opportunity to come closer to magnificent places of culture and history. .. |
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Gustavo Uzielli, Amerigo Vespucci and the discovery of America | |
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the regional project “Tuscany and the Americas”: Itineraris between
the collections and services of the Tuscan libraries, the Leonardiana
library organises the show: “Gustavo Uzielli, Amerigo Vespucci
and the discovery of America”. Museo Leonardiano-Palazzina Uzielli-Vinci,
18th October to the 30th November 2003. 500 years have passed, since Amerigo vespucci, if he was the 1st to reach America he was the first to have realised that it was a new continent, “the new world”, and would describe it by an anthropologist’s point of view. It was a start of a journey that would have quickly led to a growing integration between different worlds until their unification in the globalized contemporaneity. The anniversary of 500 year old journey of Amerigo Vespucci has been a goog excuse for the Tuscany Region and the Tuscan museum to organise initiatives, around the unified subject of “Tuscany and The Americas” which would make the most out studies and research about their collection. The Leonardiana library was officially opened in 1928, born by the co-operation started at the end of the 800s between the city council administrators of the time and Gustavo Uzielli, one of the greatest Leonardiana researchers over that period to whom we owe the initiative to found a library at Vinci .. >>> |
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Una Piazza per Leonardo (A Square for Leonardo) | |
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June – 14 September 2003, Museo Leonardiano – Palazzina Uzielli
– Vinci. The exibition “A square for Leonardo”, five projects for the new entrance to the Museo Leonardiano is being held at the Palazzina Uzielli, within of the European Project “Arte all’Arte Rinascimento-Nascimento”. The project is carried carried out with the support of the culture 2000 programme of the European Union. It is being curated by the famous art critic Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and the Director of the Museum Leonardiano Romano Nanni, concept and project developpment from the Association Arte Continua of San Gimignano. The Leonardiano Museum is celebrating it’s 50th year (1953 – 2003), with the Help of the town council. Sketches from Llya Kabakov, Anish Kapoor, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis and Mimmo Paladino are helping to reconfigurate the Guidi Square (Piazza Guidi) in Vinci .. >>> |
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