The Leonardo da Vinci Society

29/05/2026

https://voucher.fondazionecrfirenze.it/buono/?id=9b57b165-1041-44b0-9eee-ff7a66868926 From June 4 to 7, 2026, the ninth edition of the City of Readers Festival will take place at Villa Bardini. Five days of meetings, talks, presentations, and readings will be dedicated to contemporary Italian and international literature. The festival is promoted by the Fondazione CR Firenze and curated by the Wimbledon APS Association. The "Global Dante" event organized in collaboration with the Olschki publishing house for its 140th anniversary, will take place on Saturday 6 June at 6:30 pm at the Belvedere of Villa Bardini, and will be a dialogue organized in three parts: Dante and America, arranged by Valerio Cappozzo, Dante and Russia, arranged by Paolo Nori, and Dante and the Far East, by arranged Claudio Giunta.

30/03/2026

The Leonardo da Vinci Society Annual Lecture

Thu 14 May 17:30 | The Courtauld Institute
Vernon Square, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW

Dr Monica Azzolini
(University of Bologna)

"Fear, Desire, and the Deep Darkness: The Intellectual
Discovery of the Underworld from Leonardo to Kircher"

https://www.leonardodavincisociety.org.uk/event-details-registration/2026-annual-lecture

08/03/2026

Ambitious arts teachers 1. Arianna’s pumpkin-in-progress; 2. Giacomo’s sphere; 3. Arianna’s star.

Guess which subject stresses my kids (and me) more than any other? Yes, art. Many tears were shed in many years of middle school to arts and technical design.

Bless, I hope this brings me some good karma! 😊

01/09/2025

https://warning-trading.com/enquetes-et-decryptages/salvator-mundi-louvre-catalogue-fantome-hazan-martinez/

Le fameux catalogue consacré par le Louvre au Salvator Mundi et mis en vente par erreur refait surface de façon rocambolesque sur le site de petites annonces.

22/04/2025

Convegno 📖 ita/eng
Leonardo and his circle: painting technique in the light of restorations and scientific studies a cura di Antonio Sgamellotti e Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti
Il volume nasce da un incontro internazionale in cui storici dell’arte, restauratori ed esperti di metodologie scientifiche applicate all’arte, hanno presentato e discusso i loro studi più recenti sulle opere del maestro e dei suoi seguaci, tra cui Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Marco d’Oggiono, Bernardino Luini, Giangiacomo Caprotti, Francesco Melzi, nella convinzione che la conoscenza di Leonardo non sarebbe stata completa senza considerare lo sfondo della sua formazione e i risultati delle sue stesse conquiste. La ricerca interdisciplinare è una pietra angolare nella vita dell’Academia dei Lincei; la conferenza sulle tecniche di pittura di Leonardo e dei suoi allievi rappresenta uno dei punti di incontro più originali tra il mondo della scienza e quello dell’arte e dimostra chiaramente come un tale approccio interdisciplinare possa portare a risultati decisivi, innovativi e altrimenti irraggiungibili.
Se vuoi saperne di piu acquista il volume 👉🏻 link in bio o direttamente al Bookshop di Villa Farnesina in 📍via della Lungara 230

18/04/2025

18/04/2025

18/04/2025

The Italian artist, engineer and scientist Leonardo da Vinci was born on this day in 1452.

In this charming composition a young woman looks out at the viewer, proudly indicating a unicorn kneeling beside her. She holds a coiled rope attached to his collar.

Leonardo has worked fluently with pen and brown ink, using vigorous parallel hatching for shading and rippling strokes for the unicorn's mane and coat. His economical treatment of the tree and plants makes for a light, breezy setting. A few lines loosely frame the drawing, which has been cut from a larger sheet.

🦄 A maiden with a unicorn, mid to late 1470s, by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519). Drawing, 9.5 x 7.5cm. WA1855.83.1

18/04/2025

18/04/2025

: It’s no mean feat to be history’s most famous polymath, but Leonardo da Vinci surely takes the title. Though he is best known for his talents as a painter, he was also an engineer, architect, and an inquisitive scientist whose notebooks reveal an avid interest in anatomy, astronomy, botany, and cartography. Phew!

It’s 573 years today since Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in Florence, just in time to have a foundational impact on the High Renaissance and, by extension, on the course of Western art. After studying under the pre-eminent Andrea del Verrocchio, Leonardo drew a huge following for elegant compositions and the sfumato or slightly blurred, smokey texture of his paintings. He died in France in 1519 at the age of 67.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3EA3E0N

Article by Jo Lawson-Tancred

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Pictured: Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci by unknown artist (c. 17th century). Photo: DeAgostini / Getty Images.