The ceremony with Mattarella and Macron in Amboise, where the Tuscan artist died on May 2, 1519 while he was a guest of the king of France Francis I. To remember that, exhibitions and events in Italy, from stamps to special initiatives for schools
Category: Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci-related news and articles.
The «Last Supper» closed. The visitors in a protest: «We had booked»
Bewildered Italians and foreigners, with their regular tickets: “We were given guarantees as to the opening during the holiday”
From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Belushi: all the 2019 anniversaries, how many of them do you know?
May 2: joint Italy-France tribute to Leonardo Da Vinci.
Over 7,000 signatures to save the Italian language in French high schools
Plea of French and Italian intellectuals against the reform of the high school, pushed by the Macron government, which strangles the teaching of the Italian language at school. Among the signatories Jeanne Balibar and Julie Gayet, Luciano Canfora, Andrea Camilleri and Dacia Maraini
Leonardo Da Vinci, lock of his hair found: from its DNA, his descendants will be tracked down
This is the announcement made by the curators of the «Leonardo Lives» exhibition: the Leonardo’s scholar Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Ideal Leonardo Da Vinci Museum in Vinci (Florence), and the historian Agnese Sabato, president of the Leonardo Da Vinci Heritage, who in 2016 disclosed the existence of the genius’s living descendants
«Suave and fragrant». Leonardo’s wine is born again in his Vinci
It turns out that the Renaissance genius used to produce wine. A document and two museums to celebrate his unprecedented oenological side. Which had, three centuries in advance, developed a scientific method to extract the «divine liquor of grapes»
Day and night from Monday, April 29 to Sunday, May 5
Leonardo-related events in Florence and Tuscany in the week from April 29.
Florence «Painted in Blue»: the 2019 Festival of Europe
On Saturday, May 4, a seminar “Microcosm and Macrocosm: The Legacy of Leonardo da Vinci in the Children’s Hospital” will be sponsored by the Meyer Children’s Hospital Foundation.
Milan, Sforza’s Castle grows the mulberry on Leonardo’s pergola
The structure reproduces the drawing that Leonardo Da Vinci painted in 1498 on the inside of the Sala delle Asse, which should reopen to the public on May 15, after the restoration works.
«Being Leonardo da Vinci», the Genius lives again 500 years from his death between cinema and theater
Exclusively at the cinema Farnese in Rome, the film moving its steps from the theatrical show picturing an impossible interview with the ingenious inventor