da Vinci and the Renaissance 2019 (Italy) Dashboard

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Leonardo da Vinci drawingsLed by Prof. Dino Franco Felluga (felluga@purdue.edu), 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 Benjamin Koszyk on Sunday, May 12, 2019 - 16:23

The ancient kingdom ruled by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C.  This was the homeland of the torsion catapult, commissioned by Philip of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great, around 350 B.C.  This bow would later be used in historical battles including the siege of Gaza in 332 B.C., the Roman siege of Syracuse from 213 to 211 B.C., and the siege of Jerusalem in 63 B.C.

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Posted by Benjamin Koszyk on Sunday, May 12, 2019 - 16:01
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Posted by Benjamin Koszyk on Sunday, May 12, 2019 - 15:56

In 399 B.C., the Greek ruler of the colony of Syracuse in Sicily, Dionysius the Eldert, issued a declaration to produce new novel weapons, one of which was the flexible bow catapult.

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Posted by Katherine Li on Sunday, May 12, 2019 - 12:27
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