::.LE TERRE DI LEONARDO - Leonardo Exhibitions 2003.::

		"IN THE SHADOW OF LEONARDO" Accademia di Brera Milano Until 23th of november 2003
		The twenty years that Leonardo da Vinci passed in Milan, from 1482, at the court of Ludovico il Moro, left an enduring footprint in the Lombard culture. So much so that also afterwards several artists will continue to be inspired to him. The exhibition "In the shadow of Leonardo" proposes a current of this inspirations. It will be opened today at the "Accademia di Brera" where it will remain until 23th november 2003. It is one of the periodic exhibition with which Brera will put in a particular light its not much knowed works, because they are kept in the deposits, and also the works borrowed from somebody. In this occasion will be exhibited two paintings ispired to the famous "Vergine delle roccie", by Leonardo, that is kept at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The two paintings are "La Vergine col Bambino e i Santi Pietro e Paolo" that belongs to Brera but it came from the destroyed Milanese church of Sant'Andrea alla Pusterla, and an other painting similar to the Madonna con il Bambino, where there is the Virgin Mary with the child flenked by Sant'Antonio da Padova and Sant'Antonio Abate.The two clients, Ercole e Girolamo Visconti are kneeled in front. This painting in particular, knowed as "Pala di Besnate" a place in the district of Varese, is kept in the Church of San Martino. There is a stone rich of vegetation in the background, that is inspired to the natural scene-painting of Leonardo in the famous "Vergine delle Roccie". The painter of these two works is unknown but this is a very common fact in the old history of art. Certainly his cleverness is undiscussed, that is testified from the social level of his clients. For this reason he was designed as "Maestro di Ercole e Girolamo Visconti". The two Visconti were feudatories of Besnate. Also Gian Giacomo Rainoldi was a very important character for the policy during the Spanish domination. He commissions the ancona for the church of Sant'Andrea della Pusterla and the author, an anonymous "Maestro" who operates between 1520 and 1530, was a protagonist of the late current of the Lombard mouvement about Leonardo. Some of its followers were Boltraffio, Marco D'Oggiono, Cesare da Sesto, Andrea Solario and Bernardino Luin, but also Francesco Melzi, Cesare Magni and the Giampietrino ..
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		Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland 8 March 2003 —18 May 2003
		Leonardo's famed Portrait of a Lady with the Ermine, one of Europe's most celebrated paintings, is the show-stopper for the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci and the Splendor of Poland. The portrait by Leonardo will be accompanied by 76 outstanding European paintings by masters of the 15th and 16th centuries. These works are drawn from Poland’s leading national collections and feature paintings by Jan Steen, Ferdinand Bol, Jusepe de Ribera, Bernardo Bellotto, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.. >>>
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		Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) From inspiration to innovation British Library's St Pancras building From 4 September 2003 to 5 January 2004
		Everyone has heard of the Mona Lisa, but less well-known than Leonardo's painting are his notebooks. They show that he was a designer and scientist way beyond his time. He drew his visions of the aeroplane, the helicopter, the parachute, the submarine and the car. It was more than 300 years before many of his ideas were improved upon. The notebooks are where Leonardo recorded his own ideas as well as existing designs and philosophies for reference. They were never intended for publication. After his death in France on 2 May 1519, Francesco Melzi, his pupil, brought many of his manuscripts and drawings back to Italy. Melzi's heirs, who had no idea of the importance of the manuscripts, gradually disposed of them.The British Library holds one of his notebooks, the Codex Arundel. From 4 September 2003 to 5 January 2004 visitors to the British Library's St Pancras building were able to see three full-size models made for the BBC One series Leonardo .. >>>
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		La 'Madonna Litta' di Leonardo al Quirinale
		The famous painting kept in the Ermitage Museum in Saint Petesburg, will be shown in the Sala delle Bandiere from the 7th of november to the 10th of december, which will be its first return in Italy after 140 years. Entry will be free and there is no need to book. It will be held in Piazza del Quirinale on weekdays from the hours 9am to 12.30 and then in the afternoon from 4.00pm to 19.00, on Saturdays it will be held until 9.00pm and on Sundays it’s open from the hours 8.30am until midday. It will be then shown in Venice from 14th December at Palazzo Ducale, together with the opening of the Teatro La Fenice and the concert of the Orchestra Filarmonica of Saint Petesburg on the 31st January 2004. The painting was bought by Alesanndro II from the milanese family named Litta, from which the painting gets its name from. The painting is a tempera on canvas which Leonardo probably carried out in Milano, where he had moved in 1482. the Madonna portrayed on it, which she fondly looks at the baby, and the stillness of the distant mountanious landscape in the background reveal the humanistic dreams of an ideal man and of an harmonious life ..
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		From Leonardo to Now
		10/12/2003 19:30 - 10/12/2003 21:00 Ulster Museum December's Northern Bank lecture is given by Martin Kemp, Professor of History of Art at Oxford University, who researches the interfaces of representations in art, science and technology. Leonardo has been a particular focus, as in The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man (published in 1981 and awarded the Mitchell Prize) and in the major exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci, at the Hayward Gallery London in 1989. He also broadcast the recent BBC and ITN programmes on Leonardo ..>>>
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		Leonardo and Renaissance Engineers
		Taranto, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, 29 May to – 30 November 2003. Conceived and produced by the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence and Finmeccanica, the main Italian group in the field of advanced technology, the exhibition Leonardo e gli ingegneri del Rinascimento is presented in Taranto by the Municipality of Taranto and the Soprintendenza p er i Beni Archeologici della Puglia. The Taranto show marks the logical conclusion of a long program of research and exibitions on Renaissence engineers begun in 1985. The first two milestones along the way were the Leonardo da Vinci: Engineer and Architect show organised in 1987 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal and the 1991 show on the great Sienese engineers of the fifteenth century entitled Prima di Leonardo: Cultura delle macchine a Siena nel Rinascimento, organised by the University of Siena. The present exhibition was put on first at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, then in Florence, New York, London, and Tokyo, to widespread acclaim from specialists and the public .. >>>
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		The Divine and the Grotesque
		The Divine and the Grotesque is on display until November 9, 2003 at Buckingham Palace in London. This exhibition is the first to focus on the artist's life-long obsession with the human form. All the works in the exhibition come from the Royal Collection, which holds the world's finest group of Leonardo's drawings. Through his drawings and notes, Leonardo attempted to define perfect or 'divine' proportion. At the same time, he delighted in distorting the human face to explore the comic potential of the 'grotesque'. This ground-breaking exhibition looks at Leonardo's work in the context of contemporary ideas of beauty, notions of perfection and popular imagery .. >>>
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		Leonardo da Vinci, the Inventor
		With the Martigny exhibition, the Pierre Gianadda Foundation presents one of the most celebrated personalities of the Renaissance. It offers an in-depth view of the achievements of this universal genius (from April 12 to November 2, 2003). Today, over 500 years later, Leonardo still fascinates us because of his curiosity and untiring passion for exploring the world and its secrets. The exploits of inventor and researcher of this universal scholar are landmarks in human development. Over 100 reproductions, including some coloured by hand and adapted from his drawings and studies, illustrate the creative power of Leonardo: engineer and architect, builder of bridges and town planner, anatomist and versatile clockmaker .. >>>
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		In Viaggio con Leonardo
		Exibition of machines and inventions Renaissance genius. Rome, 14 July – 6 October 2003 The exhibition shows the models realizing Leonardo’s intuitions, projects and visions of the future. “Travelling with Leonardo”: a great opportunity to see with your own eyes the greatness Renaissance genius. Leonardo is the passionate artist-scientist, the inexhaustible researcher and the visionary inventor who’s still able today to exert over us an irresistible fascination. The same incredulous amazement he used to cause to his contemporaries. The aim of “Travelling with Leonardo” is to document, through the models interpreting the original projects, the genius of the inventor engineer Leonardo da Vinci. An exibition not to be missed, to make you realize the greatness of such an extraordinary and uncommon genius .. >>>
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		Leonardo's machines
		The parachute, the windlass, the wooden bycicle, the famous air screw: this is only part of the 40 machines designed by Leonardo that are on show at the Mill of Mora Bassa (Vigevano, until September 2003), a XV-cent. building that Ludovico il Moro gave to his wife Beatrice d'Este as a wedding gift. The machines, that Leonardo designed for building, war-making and flying purposes, have been reproduced on the basis of his drawings, which are collected in the manuscripts (Atlantic, Madrid etc.). The models were born from the skilled hands of Florentine craftsmen under the supervision of experienced engineers. The most interesting feature is that the machines can actually be manipulated in order to see the effects of their working .. >>>
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		Leonardo Genius and Cartographer
		By Kind permission of HM Queen Elisabeth II, five of Leonardo da Vinci’s most important cartographic works have returned to Italy together for the first time. The exibition is celebrating the five hundredth anniversary of the topographical and hydraulic studies carried out by Leonardo in the Arezzo Area in 1503, which resulted in the production of the Valdarno and Val di Chiana maps. The exibition is divided into four sections (science, technology, cartographic production and Leonardo’s stage machine). It is centered on Leonardo’s cartographic works, but the exibition also includes works like Euclids Liber Elementorum (Elements) printed in 1482, important examples of fifteenth-century map production and three apocrypha of Leonardo’s Trattato di Pittura (Treatise on Painting). Arezzo, Palazzo Comunale. 21 June – 30 September 2003 .. >>>
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		Leonardo e le Acque
		Stia (Arezzo) Palagio Fiorentino, 12 July - 28 september 2003 The show “Leonardo e le acque” is dedicated to the studies and the projects carried out by Leonardo da Vinci on the topic “Water”. The exhibition, carried out by Carlo Starnozzi with the collaboration from Carlo Pedretti, one of the most important researchers un Leonardo da Vinci, includes hydraulic machines invented by Leonardo himself, of which a pile-driver, a paddle-boat and a swing bridge as well as pictures and written passages from the Leonardo works, several codes, the bronze bust of Leonardo on which opens the famous show of 1939 in Milan, to celebrate the Italian genius and a copy of the Monalisa. Inside and outside 25 panels of the water will be an effective visual contraputo to the exhibition .. >>>
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		Una Piazza per Leonardo (A Square for Leonardo)
		15 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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		Drawings and Manuscripts
		This is the first exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci for over 50 years. The exhibition (Louvre, from May 9 to July 14, 2003), which illustrates all the many sides of this protean genius, will present 130 drawings, 88 of which are by Leonardo da Vinci, and the 12 manuscripts kept in the library of the Institut de France, which are loaned here for the first time since 1952. Extraordinary pages devoted to architecture and scientific inquiry will be shown to the public for the first time, alongside portraits, battle scenes and studies for some of his most famous paintings .. >>>
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		Leonardo & il Design – July 1, 2003 Triennale di Milano
		Some of the worlds most famous designers, such as Vico Magistretti, Alberto Meda, Lauren Boym, Marti Guize, Ezri Tarazi and Sam Hecht will preview an exhibit of there unpublished projects of Contemporary design and reinterpret Leonardo’s original projects. The exibition will include down scalled models, technical designs, original drawings and contempory models. Lots of these pieces of work will be exibited for the first time, including the Lampada Paracadute (Light Paracute), Il Kit da Surfer (Sufer’s Kit) and the ultra modern Bicicletta “Bicycle”, a project by Mariano Cycling Engineering and Stefano Garzelli, winner of 1983 Tour of Italy. .. >>>
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		Leonardo in Romagna - Art, History and Science (1500-1503)
		Rimini - Castel Sismondo, 28 February to 22 June 2003 Leonardo’s presence in Romagna as architect and engineer general coincided with that of two other extremely important figures in the tumultuous history of early sixteenth century Italy: Cesare Borgia and his ambitious political/military dream and Niccolò Machiavelli, witness to the fickle fortunes of the Romagna dukedom as ambassador of the Florentine Republic. This exhibition, organised by the Associazione Culturale Erasmo and the City Museum is dedicated to these three extraordinary individuals and to the reconstruction of their epoch using documents and material which have survived to the present day: above all Codex L, whose relationship with Leonardo’s other works is analysed, as well as letters sent by Machiavelli to the Florentine magistrates, paintings, sculptures, objects and reconstructions of mechanisms, arms and armour .. >>>
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		Leonardo Machiavelli Cesare Borgia
		La mostra, di tipo storico artistico, si svolge presso Castel Sismondo dal 1 marzo al 15 giugno 2003. E' curata dal Professor Pedretti dell’Università della California, Los Angeles e direttore dell’Hammer Center for Leonardo Studies insieme all’Associazione Culturale Erasmo e la Direzione dei Musei Comunali di Rimini, presenta oltre 150 pezzi, divisi in dieci sezioni, tra i quali disegni, dipinti, manoscritti e sculture che intendono ricostruire l’avventura del Duca Valentino, il viaggio di Leonardo in Romagna, l’arte, la cultura e l’architettura militare della Romagna di quell’epoca. La mostra è caratterizzata da un forte accento documentario per illustrare un periodo di storia, quello di Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli e Cesare Borgia in Romagna, a molti sconosciuto .. >>>
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		'Leonardo Genio Curioso'
		Le macchine leonardiane del museo di Vinci e il Codice Atlantico. Museo Naturalistico del Territorio, Villanovaforru (CA). From 29th of Novembre 2002 to the 4th of May 2003 The Museum of Sa Corona Arrubia of Villanovaforru hosts a grand cultural event for Sardinia Region with the show “Leonardo Genio Curioso”, which includes tables, designs, projects and several models of the fantastic machines invented by Leonardo da Vinci himself. There are five itineraris to the show: flight, water, architecture, building. War and work. All fascinating ways to understand the Leonardo “Uomo Comune” who notes down the expenses. The show has been braught together thanks to the mutual agreement with the National Museum of Science and Technology of Milan and the Museum of Leonardo da Vinci .. >>>
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		Leonardo e l'Egitto
		Unknown animals which have lived along the River Nile, reference to complicated hydraulic engineering works, in Menfi and other cities and even at the destruction of the Alessandria library, one of the seven wonders of the world: in the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci more than thirty quotes on Egypt have been discovered. The discovery of these quotes is owed to Professor Alesandro Vezzosi, director of “Nuovo Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci”, who has expounded the discovery on the 6th of march in Cairo in the ourse of a meeting which will follow the opening of the exhibition, which will take place at the Opera House in the capital of Egypt during the months March and April 2003 .. >>>
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		Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
		The first comprehensive survey of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings ever presented in America, this international loan exhibition - from January 22 to March 30, 2003 - brings together nearly 120 works of extraordinary beauty by one of the great masters of all time. Even in an era of boundless scientific discovery and technological invention, and of sublime artistic and humanistic achievement, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) stands as a supreme icon in Western consciousness-the very embodiment of the universal Renaissance genius. The exhibition surveys Leonardo's staggering contribution as an artist, scientist, theorist, and teacher .. >>>
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		Mostra 'Il Foglio del Teatro'
		Una pagina autografa del grande Leonardo, il progetto di una macchina da scena per l’Orfeo di Poliziano, sarà al centro di un’esposizione di straordinario valore al Museo Archeologico “Isidoro Falchi” di Vetulonia (Grosseto) dal 21 dicembre al 2 marzo 2003. L’allestimento ruota intorno al disegno realizzato a sanguigna, carboncino e penna a inchiostro. Si tratta della progettazione di un ingegnoso sistema di contrappesi per saliscendi che serviva a far apparire improvvisamente sulla scena il personaggio di Plutone .. >>>
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