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The Mystery's Adoration Fra' Bartolomeo with the print of Leonardo Galleria Borghese Rome From November 30 2004 |
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The Galleria Borghese sculpture, showing "The child's Adoration",
pre - eminently riddle for all that who study the art's history from the middle
of '800 century onwards, is related to different names, appear - among the others
- the name of Raffaello. In 1926 were very important the intuitions of Roberto
Longhi, the first to propose the Fra' Bartolomeo autography. Florence
was been the town that in the year 1996 has dedicated one big anthological show
to this florentine painter and running through again his whole working activity,
is come to the surface his execution's technique. But the study " at close quarters"
of this round has allowed to verify that which is the cultural due with the highest
Leonardo da Vinci: the soft's use, the lights and shade's treatment,
the technique used for the sails, the use of some particular. Fra' Bartolomeo with Leonardo da Vinci shares the interest for the natural phenomenons, for the different botanic and animal kinds and the Fleming art. "The child's Adoration" is a work with a refined style, from an iconographic point of view, is very subtle: all this thanks to the use of precious and expensive materials, like lapis - lazulis and gold .. >>> |
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"De
l'Italie à Chambord: la chevauchée des princes" Castle of Chambord Chambord (France) 7 July - 7 october 2004 |
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The most famous and prestigious Castle of Loira, the Castle of Chambord, opens its doors
to the rich exhibition dedicated to the French Renaissance, that is deeply
influenced from the italian art. The most important work of this exhibition
is a Leonardo da Vinci's work. He is the protagonist with his Leicester
Code, that is on show from the 7th of July to the 7th of september. The Leicester Code is the famous note book that belongs, today, to the president of Microsoft, Bill Gates. The code deal with the movements of water and the canalizations, the astronomy, the geophysics and the paleontology. The famous code, bought to an auction in 1994 by Gates, is composed of 18 papers written with the left hand from right to left. It will be showed only for 90 minutes a day, and for the rest of the day it remains in the dark with a suitable and constant climate condition. Besides the mythical code there will be manuscripts, paintings of the Renaissance, architectural decorations and portraits of French princes. This scenery will be create inside the imposing castle where will revive the taste of the past and the spirit of Renaissance until the 7th of october. The exhibition dedicates a whole section to the celebration of Italy with a collection of the most famous reproductions of the greatest artists in '500 in Italy, from Tiziano to Raffaello, who were appreciated by the king Francesco I, who was the ambitious creator of the castle .. >>> |
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Leonardo
e lo Sport The great maestro is revealed in Athens Melina Mercouri Cultural Center Athens - Greece August 10 - September 28 2004 Admission Free |
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work he still is considered a mystery-case. Philosopher, inventor and artist
he put himself through a continuous quest in order to comprehend fundamental
natural laws. In this context he designed imaginary flying and other machines,
as well as precursors of objects that did not apply but years later. Homo
universalis Leonardo Da Vinci and his humanist "notes" are revealed
in Athens, in the context of the Leonardo e lo Sport exhibition, presented
at the Melina Mercouri Cultural Center. More specifically, the exhibition which is co-organised by the City of Athens, the Tuscany Region and the Italian Embassy in Athens and takes place under the aegis of Republics of Greece and Italy and the Italian Parliament and Senate, aspires to highlight some of the Maestro's lesser known aspects .. >>> Courtesy By cultureguide.gr |
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The
Atlantic Code - On Leonardo da Vinci 's tracks.. Imperial Castle Hofburg Innsbruck 28th May - 31st August |
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| Innsbruck
houses in the charming gothic hall of the Imperial Castle "Hofburg", an
exhibition dedicated to the Atlantic Code of Leonardo da Vinci, realized
with the cooperation of the "Museo Leonardiano" of Vinci. On the initiative of the Italian Consulate and of the Italian Culture Institute of Innsbruck, will be ehxibited more than 70 tables of the Atlantic Code, elaborated from 1894 to 1904. The models of the "Museo Leonardiano" of Vinci, where the great genius was born, are wonderful examples of interpretations of some significant studies of Leonardo, like those on the flight, the war and the water. You can also admire his screw, his glider and his armoured vehicle. It will be presented all what is historical and curious about thi renaissance genius, but there will be also objects of modern tecnology that allow to do comparisons with Leonardo's studies, with interesting interpretations. The gothic cellar of the Imperial Palace of Innsbruck, build in 1494, is the suitable frame for the works, intersting whether from the aesthetic point of view or scientific, of the renaissance genius that was Leonardo da Vinci .. |
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"THE
PRINCE'S COLLECTION: FROM LEONARDO TO GOYA" NATIONAL ACADEMY OF LINCEI ETCHINGS AND PRINTS COLLECTED BY THE CORSINI'S Roma, Fontana di Trevi Palace May 21 - July 18, 2004 |
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is unbeatable for the quantity of the prints but unique for the selection". So, even in 1755, was defined the collection of etchings the, toghether with the drawings, will be temporary exhibited in the halls of Palazzo fontana di Trevi. This is a once in a lifetime occasion to admire a collection of graphic works which began with Prince Neri Maria Corsini and his uncle Lorenzo, Pope Clement the Twelfth, in the first half of the 18th century. The collection - 138,687 prints and 17,733 drawings - was kept in Rome in the Corsiniana Library of Palazzo alla Lungara. In 1883 "with the desire of being useful to the good studies and the arts", Tommaso Corsini donate to the Academia dei Lincei the entire library, that kept the sisth graphic collection in Europe. 109 years later, a selection of prints and drawings from the original Corsini's collection is presented for the first time. 160 works will be showed; prints and drawings but also 27 volumes that collect about 2500 etchings. Between the finest volumes, there are the Antichità romane by Giovan Battista Piranesi, the Palazzi di Genova by Pietro Paolo Rubens and the edition of the Museo capitolino by Giovanni Gaetano Bottari. The nucleus of the drawings section is represented by the works of the florentine school between the XV and the XVIII century, like the Leonardo da Vinci's drapery, the Maso Finiguerra and Filippino Lippi's drawings. The prints illustrate the development of the etching of the Italian tradition and creation, but also German, Flemish and French, from the first etchings made on the wood to the works of Andrea Mantegna, Albrecht Dürer, Salvator Rosa, Guido Reni, Rembrandt, Giambattista Piranesi and Francisco Goya. The project of the exhibition has been conceived and organized for the celebration of the IV centenary of the Accademia dei Lincei foundation (1603-2003) .. >>> |
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CITTA’
DI VINCI CELEBRAZIONI LEONARDIANE (celebrating Leonardo) April 17th – July 3rd 2004 |
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FROM
THE CRANE TO THE GOLDFORGING MACHINE Opening of the first new sections of the new reorganization and enlargement of the Museo Leonardiano. From June 26th 2004 |
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for the enlargement and renewal of the Museo Leonardiano, opened in 1953
after one of the first big exhibitions of models of Leonardo’s machines,
aims at offering an internationally recognized seat, in which the experience
of Leonardo as an engineer, an architect and a scientist, and more generally
speaking, the Renaissance technique are diffusely documented to the public
through the reconstruction and the presentation of models and experiments
taken from his manuscripts, which have been re-read and reinterpreted on
the basis of historical researches and of technical tests, permanently developed,
updated and presented through different communicative canals, from the most
traditionl ones to digital technologies. The project is financed by the Municipality of Vinci and by Regione Toscana Scientific and financial project, organization and work coordination by Romano Nanni, Director of the Museo Leonardiano and of the Biblioteca Leonardiana of Vinci .. >>> |
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Grotesques–Leonardo's
Strange Legacy Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA April 14–July 18, 2004 |
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the 18th century, Leonardo da Vinci's reputation among painters as well
as connoisseurs depended to a major degree upon his grotesques–sketches
of individuals with startling, exaggerated features. These extraordinary studies became widely dispersed, and because they were so eagerly collected, they were also frequently copied. This exhibition consists of two clusters of copies: 16th century drawings from the so-called Borghese Album, and a collection of finally drawn figures–either from surviving copies or lost originals .. >>> |
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Leonardo’s
Automobile Institute and Museum of The History of Science Florence April 14th – June 5th, 2004 |
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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 .. >>> |
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LEONARDO,
L’ACQUA E IL RINASCIMENTO Castello Sforzesco – Torre del Falconiere Milano, Piazza Castello MARCH 18– MAY 30 2004 |
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energy originate? How much importance have “water lift gears”
had in the past? Does one know how the “water motor”, “piston pump” or hydraulic rolling-mill work? How many have actually seen one of Leonardo’s inventions? And for those who have, how many have truly understood their construction? These unique exhibition of Leonardo’s revolutionary discoveries and intuitions displays how though six Centuries later his inventions fascinate us and how they effect our world today. Moreover this peculiar exposition presents Leonardo water machines studies instead of his pictorial masterpieces. “Leonardo, the Water and the Renaissance” is a charming run in which the visitors is personally and physically involved and anybody change in real inventor. This particular exhibition should be considered as a modern key of reading for Leonardo water machines; a virtual visit is also included to allow a practice interaction with the ancient prototypes: in this way learning the mechanical process is within everyone’s reach. So this show represents an important occasion for the Italian culture development and popularisation that has a large impassioned target in our Country .. >>> |
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XLIV
Lettura Vinciana Leonardo’s Stains “because confusion awakens the mind in new inventions” (Book on Painting, f. 35 v, ch. 66) by Carlo Pedretti Vinci, Leonardo Library Saturday 17th April 2004, at 10.30 am. |
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| Chapter 66 of Leonardo’s Book on Painting consists of two texts almost identical with the advise to the painter to look at the stains on the walls or at other natural manifestations, such as the ever-changing cloud formations, so as to stimulate fantasy and to create new visions of landscape or the action of human or animal figures. The original of the first text is known and can be dated about 1492, the second is lost but it contains subtle hints of stylistic character to suggest a much later date. The author comes to the problem of chronology through a close examination of philological, philosophical, historical and literary nature so as to assess the extraordinary critical fortune of this unique document. In the first edition of 1651 and in the following ones, such as the English ones from 1721 on, the double text is editorially abridged into a single one, which was to have an unprecedented and ever-lasting impact, yet to be assessed as such, on the theory and practice of art in the ensuing centuries, from the English landscape painters of the eighteenth century, to the French Impressionists and the Tuscan Macchiaioli of the nineteenth century, all the way to the Informal painters of our time .. >>> | ||
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Pittori
della Realtà – The Reasons of a Revolution from Foppa and Leonardo to Caravaggio and Ceruti |
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Museo Civico Ala Ponzone 14 February - 2 May 2004 New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 27 May – 15 August 2004 Approximately 110 paintings and drawings from the North Italian region of Lombardy, dating from the 16th through the 18th century, will reveal the rich vein of naturalism found there. The exhibition will begin with a group of Leonardo's nature studies done during his Milanese period and will then expand to consider the many avenues that such close observation of nature and everyday reality took in portraiture, still life, and devotional painting. This heritage was key to Caravaggio's development, and therefore to the course of Baroque painting in Rome and throughout Europe. The biggest museums and private collectors of the world have provided incredible and renowned masterpieces of the most famous artists: Vincenzo Foppa, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Moretto da Brescia, Giovan Gerolamo Savoldo, Evaristo Baschenis, Il Romanino, Annibale Carracci, Giovan Battista Moroni, Andrea Solario, Lorenzo Lotto, Sofonisba Anguissola, Giacomo Ceruti. The exhibition has been organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Associazione Promozione Iniziative Culturali di Cremona.. >>> |
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Leonardo
da Vinci the Inventor Magazzini del Cotone Genova 14 November 2003 - 28 March 2004 |
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| The newest exhibition promoted by Assindustria Genova in co-operation with Costa Edutainment, Marconi Communications and Royal & Sun Alliance intend to increase awareness of the corporate culture in Italy. It celebrates one of the most significant artist, inventor and researcher: Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was associated with engineering projects in all his life, he dealt with themes that had been considered by scientists before him and usually also written about in treatises. Nonetheless, Leonardo the engineer remains an exciting figure, for his method of developing machines is one that can still be called exemplary today. The exhibition shows the ample collection of drawings (with models) and manuscripts regarding his surveys from the flying movements of birds and the anatomy of the wing at the architectural projects of public and private buildings, canals, bridges, water pipes etc.. >>> | ||
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Three Masterpieces of the Renaissance | |
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Museum (Biblioteca Reale) in Turin from March 9 to March
7, 2004 is exhibiting the works of the three great artists. The Autoritratto (self portrait, 1516) of Leonardo da Vinci. The Manuscripts of Très Belles Heures de Nostre Dame (1390-1450) by Jan Van Eyck. The Ritratto di Ignoto (1476) by Antonello da Messina. Apart from these three masterpieces you can also view other works from 1400 through to the early part of 1500, including painting, 'codici miniati' and precious glasses, which have been decorated and painted by hand thus illustraing certain aspects of culture from this period .. >>> |
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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 |
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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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