For da Vinci, there was no divide between art and science he would even dissect corpses to get a better understanding of anatomy for his paintings. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Despite living over 500 years ago, da Vinci made drawings and plans for lots of modern technology including diving equipment, calculators, helicopters, and hang-gliders. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. It contained a work now attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and valued at about 15.8 million. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. A retired doctor visited a Paris auction house in March with a portfolio of drawings. The collection is on display until August 20.Ĭopyright © 2023 NPR. Children can try their hands at aerodynamics and mechanics and make like a little Leonardo. MARTIN: There's also an interactive exhibit alongside the drawings. REYES-GAVILAN: What an opportunity to have a regular urban library user who may not ever visit a museum stumble upon the handwritten works of possibly humanity's greatest genius. MARTÍNEZ: He says the exhibit makes a change from the library's usual focus on local artists and histories. RICHARD REYES-GAVILAN: Leonardo here at the MLK Library could provide an opportunity for people who may feel isolated from a typical museum experience. Public Library hasn't hosted an art of this caliber before, says executive director Richard Reyes-Gavilan. And the public library is very important in this way.
The group's president, Carlo Bonomi, says da Vinci is his country's finest ambassador.ĬARLO BONOMI: It's very important for us also to build a bridge with the USA, not only for the economic issue, but also for social issue. office today as part of a project to broaden the appeal of Italian industry. MARTIN: The collection was brought across the Atlantic by the General Confederation of Italian Industry. Of course, he says, that utility and beauty have to go together. ROCCA: It's not just beauty for beauty, but it's beauty applied to life. They also include subjects such as mechanics, perpetual motion and the development of gears, all themes that Da Vinci believed had a purpose. MARTÍNEZ: The images date from 1478 to 1519. We have some drawings of hydraulics and also we have some textile machineries. He's talking about the Atlantic Codex, the largest collection of written notes and drawings by da Vinci. Most scholars agree that Leonardo used a bovine heart for all his drawings from around 1513, for which he may have had two reasons. MARTIN: That's Alberto Rocca, a fellow at Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana Library. The exhibition is called "Imagining The Future - Leonardo Da Vinci: In The Mind Of An Italian Genius."ĪLBERTO ROCCA: We have here a selection of 12 drawings out of 1,119 drawings. But to see it, you're going to walk past the place you might expect - one of the Smithsonian museums - and head over to the Martin Luther King Jr. appearance in an exhibition now open in Washington, D.C. A collection of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci is making its first U.S.
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