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Take inspiration from life : from Leonardo da Vinci to the present day

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, with a series of models of small cars and details of flying machines taken from Leonardo da Vinci's drawings. At the end of the exhibition, the three models […]

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The Making of Technique in the Arts

The Making of Technique in the Arts: Concepts and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

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

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Architecture model drawings

Drawings, models, architecture, art history: historical study and virtual restitution In the era of digital humanities

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,

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Symposium

Science and engineering in the Arab heritage

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

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Strasbourg

Seminar at the University of Strasbourg

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

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Gropina

Leonardian evening in the Pieve di San Pietro in Gropina

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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Roma - Wisdom

“glowing fire” speeches on fire between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 16-17 June, philosophy department, La Sapienza University, Roma.

As part of the permanent doctorate in the History of Philosophy, two days of work were held on the theme of fire and its variations, in science, in art and literature between the 16th and 17th centuries. Artes Mechanicae participated with a report entitled: Practice and theory of fire in the writings of Leonardo da Vinci and Vannoccio

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Koyre

Campus Condorcet workshops (Paris) – 7 June 2016 – “The model, so what? “

The 7 June 2016 the third session of the seminar program was held 2015-2016 of the Condorcet Campus (Paris) by title “The reconstitution – heuristic process and / or object of mediation ?”, in collaboration with the Center Alexandre Koyré (CNRS-EHESS-MNHN), SAPRAT (EPHE), ILJ-CEDRIC (Cnam), CTHS (National School of Charters), CEMS (CNRS-EHESS), IDHES (University of Evry-Val d´Essonne & University of

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mardin

International Symposium on Al-Jazari, 13-14 May 2016, University of Mardin, Turkey

The Artuklu University of Mardin in Turkey has organized an international symposium on Al-Jazari, Arab engineer and scientist of the 12th-13th century. Jobs, divided into two days, have contributed to historically analyze and contextualize the machines designed in the Compendium on Theory and Practice of Mechanical Arts (Al-Jami ‘Bayna’ l-‘ilm wa-‘l-‘amal al-Nafi ‘fi sinat’at al-hiyal). Artes Mechanicae has submitted a report from

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