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"Take off, said Leonardo da Vinci" Annantalo Arts Centre Helsinki - Finland 20.08.2005 - 20.11.2005 |
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The big exhibition at the Annantalo this autumn will be devoted to the Italian Renaissance
artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), featuring him as an inventor and scientist. The exhibition will be produced jointly by the Annantalo Arts Centre, Dadaa Production, the Vinci Museum Leonardiano and the Biblioteca Comunale Leonardiana lending the exhibits, the Helsinki Festival and the Italian Cultural Institute .. >>> |
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Codex Leicester Mori Arts Center Gallery Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo September 15 - November 13 2005 |
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| Leonardo da Vinci: The Codex Leicester introduces the scientific thinking of arguably one of the greatest geniuses in history, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). The exhibition features Leonardo's manuscript, the Codex Leicester, which was written between 1506 and 1510. The manuscript, on loan from Bill and Melinda Gates, is comprised of 72 pages in all, and is a lively record of Leonard's thoughts. It embraces a wide variety of topics, from astronomy to hydrodynamics, and includes his theories and observations about air, celestial light, rocks and fossils, and the properties of water. These are expressed in his signature mirror writing, as well as more than 300 pen-and-ink sketches, drawings, and diagrams, many of them illustrating imagined or real experiments. The exhibition also attempts to re-create Leonardo's remarkable thoughts through modern digital media and information technology .. >>> (japanese text) | ||
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Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo And the Renaissance in Florence National Gallery of Canada Ottawa 29 May - 5 September 2005 Open daily from 10 am to 5 pm, and Thursdays to 8 pm |
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An exhibition of about 125 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints highlighting the genius
of the Florentine masters between 1500 and 1550. Florence, the capital of Tuscany, located on the river Arno, is more myth than real place, celebrated as the birthplace of the Renaissance. Exhibitions have been held celebrating the glories of art in Florence, but rarely has the period that found Leonardo and Michelangelo active in the city at the same time working on their famous battle frescoes for the Palazzo Vecchio been so featured. Outside of Florence itself, exhibitions on this subject are yet more rare, and in Canada an event of this type is entirely unprecedented .. >>> |
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Leonardo da Vinci - Mensch, Erfinder, Genie Vienna Art Center Vienna - Austria 03 march 2005 - 31 july 2005 |
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| Die Ausstellung im Vienna Art Center thematisiert die vielleicht spannendste Seite Leonardo´s, den Erfinder. Sie bietet die einmalige Gelegenheit, die 60 bahnbrechendsten Erfindungen Leonardo da Vinci´s zu besichtigen. Alle Schöpfungen wurden originalgetreu nach seinen detaillierten Skizzen über Jahre hinweg in liebevoller Kleinarbeit gefertigt und sind nun erstmalig in Wien zu sehen. Leonardos Erfindungen haben neu Maßstäbe gesetzt und waren so fortschrittlich, dass sie erst viel später mit modernen Materialien und Produktionstechniken realisiert werden konnten. Auch nach über 500 Jahren sind seine Konstruktionen von verblüffender Aktualität. Leonardos Genie forderte stets das Spektakuläre und Unvorstellbare heraus. Einer seiner großen Träume war die unbegrenzte Mobilität .. >>> | ||
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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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LEONARDO MARKS INTO THE TERRITORY, THE PLACES, THE STUDIES, THE MACHINES Museo della Civiltà Romana, Eur - Piazza Giovanni Agnelli Rome, From January 13 To April 10 2005 Spoleto - Museo Archeologico, From April 16 To June 10 2005 |
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| The show "Leonardo marks into the territory, the places, the studies, the machines" offers the observation and experiment's pleasure, the taste to understand, to reveal the Leonardo genius, who is engineer, artist and architect. The show is clear and simple, and it allows to everybody, hardworkings and busybodies, to amuse oneself and at the same time learning, revealing the most important principles studied by Leonardo which are still today applied. The show creates sole knowledge's chances. There are 16 machines, realized according to the studies which derive from the Leonardo codes. The machine's working is completely craft, the reconstructions are faithful and particular attention is given at the peculiarities. There are clear captions and panels which reproduce the machine's drawing: all this to help answering at three question marks: how's the machine, what's its function, how is its functioning. The charm that still today exercizes the Leonardo figure has urged the buildings Dario Noè and Gabriele Niccolai, founder partners of Vigevano Association, to study the mechanic described in his drawings, realizing some models using the same materials used at the Leonardo time: wood, cotton, brass, iron and rope. | ||
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The Genius of da Vinci Szabó Ervin Library Budapest From March 18 to May 29 |
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The exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci in Budapest, opens at the opulent former Wenckheim Palace,
now the Szabó Ervin Könyvtár (Library) in District VIII, and remains on view until May 29.
On the opening day, a scholarly conference takes place at the Italian Cultural Institute,
in which leading savants will discuss important aspects and problems of the work of Leonardo
and of the exhibition. Thanks to the persistent efforts and hard work of Dr Benito Righetti,
Scientific Attaché at the Italian Embassy (along with the commercial office and the Italian
Institute of Budapest), the Hungarian public now has a chance to admire, examine and study
first hand facsimile sheets and reconstructed machinery based on the intellectual/artistic/
scientific production of Leonardo's ever active mind. On view are mounted sheets from the first facsimile edition by Hoepli, 1894, of Leonardo's famous Codex Atlanticus, a huge album of pasted sheets from the Ambrosian Library in Milan. The largest number of sheets is still in the so-called Codex Atlanticus, facsimile sheets of which we can admire in Budapest now. On March 17, at 10:30am, with art historians Dr Erno Marosi, Dr Esther Vécsey, Dr Edoardo Vesentini (Accademia dei Lincei), Dr Romano Nanni (the machines) Books referring to Leonardo will be displayed in the cases in the hall of the Institute. |
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Represent the Body Art and Anatomy from Leonardo da Vinci to the Enlightenment Palazzo Poggi Museum - Bologna University Bologna From December 11 2004 to March 20 2005 |
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Bologna University, for the IV centenary of Ulisse Aldrovandi's death,
organizes the exhibition " Represent the body Art and Anatomy from Leonardo
da Vinci to the Enlightenment", a wonderful journey about the misteries
which regulate the human body's working. Among over two hundred representations, it will be illustrated the relationship about art and science, from Leonardo da Vinci since the anatomical waxs of '700. The exhibition's reason is a detailed description of all that is hidden inside the human body. Such exhibition will hold, as an exception, seven Leonardo da Vinci autograph designs, directly coming by the collection belonging to the Queen Elizabeth in Windsor .. >>> |
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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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LEONARDO DA VINCI ATLANTIC CODE CORSINI PALACE - Via della Lungara 10 ROME From January 11 To February 28 2005 |
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Corsini Palace, in Rome, from Tuesday 11 of January to Monday 28 of February 2005, to
carry on after into the most important european cultural institutes, will entertain
the international show about the Leonardo da Vinci Atlantic code. This show running through again the most significative stages of Leonardo activity will present some machine's models of Leonardo da Vinci museum. A project wth the aim going through the 5th history's centuries which tie together the highest Leonardo to the modern technology: close to the Leonardo drawings there will be the most advanced technological models of contemporary firms. |
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