Medieval History
'Art and Science in the Italian Renaissance: The Animal World',
London, 7 November 2008
LEONARDO DA VINCI SOCIETY
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/
The conference is a contribution to the Leonardo da Vinci Society's
occasional series of one-day meetings on subjects of both scientific
and artistic interest.
Date: Friday 7 November 2008
Time: 1000 to 1800
Place: School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
Speakers will include
FRANCIS AMES-LEWIS (Birkbeck, University of London), on animal
drawings by Pisanello and others.
MONICA AZZOLINI (University of Edinburgh), 'Leonardo da Vinci and Generation'.
J. V. FIELD (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Athanasius Kircher on Music'.
ANDREW GREGORY (University College London), 'Harvey on the Nature and
Uses of Animals'.
MARTIN KEMP (University of Oxford) on Leonardo da Vinci and the horse.
VIVIAN NUTTON (Wellcome Unit, University College London), 'Cutting up
animals is (academically) wrong: resolving the Vesalian dilemma'.
Date: Friday 7 November 2008
Time: 1000 to 1800
Place: School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
(nearest tube stations: Russell Square (Piccadilly Line), Euston
Square (Circle and Metropolitan Lines), Euston (Circle, Metropolitan,
Northern and Victoria Lines))
The registration fee, which includes morning and afternoon coffee or
tea, is 15 pounds for members of the Leonardo da Vinci Society and
the unwaged, 20 pounds for non-members. Please make cheques payable
to the Society and send to the Hon Treasurer, Tony Mann, School of
Computing and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Greenwich, Old
Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS. Advance registration
is preferred, but payments may be made at the door.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, please contact the organisers: Prof Francis
Ames-Lewis, Dr J. V. Field
.
The Leonardo da Vinci Society (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/)
is a Registered Charity, number 1012878.
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Medieval History
Art and Science in the Italian Renaissance
'Art and Science in the Italian Renaissance: The Animal World',
London, 7 November 2008
LEONARDO DA VINCI SOCIETY
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/
The conference is a contribution to the Leonardo da Vinci Society's
occasional series of one-day meetings on subjects of both scientific
and artistic interest.
Date: Friday 7 November 2008
Time: 1000 to 1800
Place: School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
Speakers will include
FRANCIS AMES-LEWIS (Birkbeck, University of London), on animal
drawings by Pisanello and others.
MONICA AZZOLINI (University of Edinburgh), 'Leonardo da Vinci and Generation'.
J. V. FIELD (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Athanasius Kircher on Music'.
ANDREW GREGORY (University College London), 'Harvey on the Nature and
Uses of Animals'.
MARTIN KEMP (University of Oxford) on Leonardo da Vinci and the horse.
VIVIAN NUTTON (Wellcome Unit, University College London), 'Cutting up
animals is (academically) wrong: resolving the Vesalian dilemma'.
Date: Friday 7 November 2008
Time: 1000 to 1800
Place: School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
(nearest tube stations: Russell Square (Piccadilly Line), Euston
Square (Circle and Metropolitan Lines), Euston (Circle, Metropolitan,
Northern and Victoria Lines))
The registration fee, which includes morning and afternoon coffee or
tea, is 15 pounds for members of the Leonardo da Vinci Society and
the unwaged, 20 pounds for non-members. Please make cheques payable
to the Society and send to the Hon Treasurer, Tony Mann, School of
Computing and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Greenwich, Old
Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS. Advance registration
is preferred, but payments may be made at the door.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, please contact the organisers: Prof Francis
Ames-Lewis
The Leonardo da Vinci Society (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/)
is a Registered Charity, number 1012878.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) was an artist, inventor, scientist, architect, engineer, writer and even a musician. Now we know that he was also a fashion designer. After several months of meticulous research, scholars have reconstructed some fragmented...
- New Theory About The Background Of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa
It is arguably the most famous and highly debated portrait ever, but new research has sparked a debate about the landscape behind Leonardo da Vinci?s Mona Lisa. The enigmatic work, which hangs in the Louvre in Paris, has been the subject of speculation...
- Newly Rediscovered Da Vinci Painting To Go On Display At The National Gallery
he National Gallery in England will be having the first public showing of a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci work, Salvator Mundi, which was created in the late 15th or early 16th century. It will be featured during the Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court...
- The Painting Once Sold For £45 'is A Long-lost Leonardo Worth £120million'
A painting once sold for £45 at auction has been identified as a work by Leonardo Da Vinci and is estimated to be worth a world record £120 million. The oil on wood panel painting, Salvator Mundi, or Saviour of the World, depicts Christ with his right...
- Leonardo Da Vinci Masterpiece Restored
Leonardo da Vinci?s masterpiece The Virgin of the Rocks has gone back on display at the National Gallery in London, England, after 18 months of specialist conservation work. The painting had been covered with a layer of badly discoloured varnish from...