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 Alexa Lahey on Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 19:27

The Gallerie dell’Accaedmia houses the Virtuvian Man, a famous drawing of a man with perfect proportions by da Vinci. It is kept in a dim room to prevent fading. 

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Posted by Alexa Lahey on Tuesday, April 23, 2019 - 19:21

Leonardo da Vinci went on an excursion with his college Francesco di Giorgio to Pavia, Italy in 1490. While on this trip, the two artists discussed the possibilities of the Vitruvian Man. It was here that di Giorgio made his first sketches of his Vitruvian Man, which would go on to inspire da Vinci. 

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