ArtesMechanicae participated in the construction of the Léonard de Vinci exhibition, Water Master, held at the Clos Lucé in Amboise from the 6 June to 13 September 2026. ArtesMechanicae was entrusted with the curatorship of the exhibition, the creation of seven machine models and three 3D animations taken from Leonardo da Vinci's drawings.
May 11th 2026 the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore presented the new general scientific catalog of the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Mandragora publisher, 2026), edited by Timothy Verdon and Rita Filardi. It is the first official scientific catalog in the history of the Museum since its inauguration in 1891. The work is divided into four volumes in edition
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Alexander Neuwahl ha partecipato alla Fourth Abu Dhabi International Conference on Manuscripts “Visual Arts in Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts: Artistic Heritage and Contemporary Influence.” which was held in Abu Dhabi a few days ago 8-9 October 2025 at the Cultural Foundation of Abu Dhabi. The intervention, by title “The role of Heron’s mechanics illustrations in its Arabic
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ArtesMechanicae participated in the S'inspirer du vivant exhibition : from Leonardo da Vinci to the present day, holding at the Clos Lucé in Amboise of the 7 June to 10 September 2025. ArtesMechanicae was entrusted with the curatorship of the exhibition and the creation of a series of machine models and details of flying machines taken
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ArtesMechanicae has contributed to the mostra Leonardo da Vinci and perfumes in the Renaissance, holding at the Clos Lucé in Amboise of the 7 June to 15 September 2024, with the reconstruction of an alembic designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The creation of the still followed the most rigorous philological criteria, with the creation of a shape in
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Andrea Bernardoni participated with a paper entitled From the body to the word: language analogies in the 15th-16th Centuries practical Knowledge, at the workshop organized by the University of Utrecht and Amsterdam “The making of technique in the art” the 26 e 27 October 2017. The workshop is part of the project “Arthecne” of the Universities of Utrecht e
Alexander Neuwahl participated for ArtesMechanicae in the seminar organized by the PhD School of Architecture in Florence, from the Sorbonne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, the CNRS of Marseille and the Leonardian Library of Vinci. After Paris in November 2015, Marseille in June 2016, and Bologna on 12 and the 13 September 2016,
La Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation – Centre for the Study of Islamic Manuscripts, e la Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC), organized a two-day symposium entitled “Science and Engineering in the Islamic Heritage” (London, House of Lord, Westminister 03-17 – Al-Furqan foundation 03-18). Andrea Bernardoni represented Artes mechanicae with a
The 19/01/2017 nell’ambito del ciclo di seminari “Visualization of scientific and technical knowledge”, organized by Fanny Kieffer, Isabelle Laboulais, Martial Guédron and Olivier Poncer at the University of Strasbourg, Alexander Neuwahl participated for ArtesMechanicae with a speech entitled “Portraits de machines – Leonardo da Vinci and the engineers of the Renaissance ”. Through an excursus
In the suggestive scenery of the Romanesque parish church of Gropina in the municipality of Loro Ciuffenna (WITH), Andrea Bernardoni and Marco Versiero held a conversation entitled Leonardo Artist and engineer. The two interventions retraced and contextualized the main biographical events, artistic and engineering, by Leonardo, in the light of the recent historiographical contributions presented in the Leonardo di Vinci exhibition
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