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Leonardo da Vinci drawingsLed by Prof. Dino Franco Felluga ([email protected]), da Vinci and the Renaissance is a fully cross-disciplinary study-abroad program that explores the transition from the medieval period to the Renaissance across multiple subjects (art, architecture, engineering, science), thus laying out how much of what we take for granted today about technology or about the human subject were implemented in this rich period, especially in Italy.  The focus for the course will be that most famous “Renaissance man,” Leonardo da Vinci.  The course’s interdisciplinary approach asks students to think about the constructed nature of the things we take for granted as “natural” (e.g., time, space, human subjectivity, meaning, sight, knowledge, and law), thus opening our eyes to the significance of cultural differences.

We finish in the last days of the course by flash-forwarding to our present century so we can consider not only how Renaissance thinking made possible a number of present-day developments (robotics and computing, for example), but also the myriad ways that we are now seeing a cultural, ontological, and epistemological shift that is as far-reaching as the one between the medieval period and the Renaissance. The Peggy Guggenheim Museum and the Venice Biennale will provide us with our artistic examples of so-called “postmodernism.”

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Posted by Ben Hardin on Thursday, May 9, 2019 - 12:31
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Posted by Marissa White on Thursday, May 9, 2019 - 10:56

Verrocchio wanted only the best material for his dome and lantern; this meant that he had to travel to Venice in order to intercept the best gilded copper. His order consisted of eight sheets of copper that took two loads to get to Florence. The finished product of the sphere alone was nearly 2000 kg. 

Source: http://www.florencecity.it/sfera-del-verrocchio-storia-saette-2/ 

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Posted by Marissa White on Thursday, May 9, 2019 - 10:36
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Posted by Kyra Wilson on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 22:16
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Posted by Corinne Evans on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 16:46

The Codex Leciester, one of da Vinci's scientific notebooks which depicts his thoughts on the Moon, Sun, and Earth, as well as on water, was last displayed here at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy.  After being purchased by Bill Gates in 1994, it has been digitalized and its pages have traveled the globe, visiting various museams and libraries.  After concluding its time at the Uffizi in January of this year, it will make its next public appearence at the British Library for an event marking the 500th annaversary of da Vinci's death.

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Posted by Corinne Evans on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 16:19
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Posted by Cara McCormick on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 16:07

This is where Jesus was Baptized by John the Baptist. 

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Posted by Cara McCormick on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 - 16:04

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