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Leonardo e l'Arno

Book presentation “Leonardo and the Arno” at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan

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The volume, realized with the contribution of Acque SpA and Acea, with the patronage of the Municipality of Vinci, collects essays by Leonardo experts who analyze the theme of water, a topic that occupied Leonardo for a long period of time, describing an interdisciplinary path that goes from the study of nature to physical and engineering experimentation […]

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Louvre - Leonardo da Vinci

The models of ArtesMechanicae at the Louvre Museum in Paris

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Artes Mechanicae presents two flying machines alongside others from the Leonardo Leonardo di Vinci Museum in the Louvre auditorium as part of the series of conferences “24 hours with Leonardo” the 19 and and the 20 September 2015.The lecture given by Professor Pascal Brioist dell’ University of Tours, dedicated to the theme of flight, will highlight the new interpretations advanced by ArtesMechanicae of the flying wing

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Marignan1515-2015

Marignan 1515/2015

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Marignan2015 is the reconstruction of a court celebration that took place in 1518 to celebrate the victory of Marignano and King Francesco I in 1515. The show will bring together about five hundred extras in the Leonardo da Vinci Park – Clos Lucé in Amboise and in the Beauvais park in Romorantin during the last weekend of July 2015.

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Divine Microscope

Replica of Eustachio Divini's compound microscope preserved at the Museum of the History of Physics of the University of Padua

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The ArtesMechanicae workshops together with Guido Giannini, historic craftsman of Piazza Pitti in Florence, they made the replica of the compound microscope made by Eustachio Divini's workshop in 1671, the only remaining example of its production today. Through an analysis carried out with philological rigor, an attempt was made to understand the techniques and the original materials used

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Milan conference

International Study Conference – Leonardo da Vinci: Methods and Techniques for Knowledge Construction. From the Drawing, all'Arte, to Science

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13-14 May 2015 Politecnico di Milano edited by Pietro C. Marani Speech by Andrea Bernardoni (Museo Galileo – Mechanical Arts, Florence), Leonardo and the study of the four elements: the physics of fire and its technological applications.

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LV Reading Vinciana

LV Reading Vinciana

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Leonardiana Library, Vinci, 11 April 2015 In Vinci, in the morning of the day 11 April 2015, Andrea Bernardoni held the fifty-fifth Vinciana Lecture entitled "Of the blow cagion del foco (Codex Atlanticus, f. 973v). A dialogue between natural philosophy and mechanical arts in Leonardo's manuscripts ".

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