da Vinci and the Renaissance 2020 Dashboard

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Dino Franco Felluga

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Leonardo drawingsDa 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 and more), 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.  Our focus 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 will also consider the many 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 3 credits will be split between 8 weeks of instruction at Purdue (1 credit) and our study-abroad program to Venice and Florence (2 credits). In Italy, we will see a number of things that we will have discussed before getting on a plane together. We will also think about the nature of confronting a different culture and of being a tourist in a foreign land.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France

Posted by Cooper Slack on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 23:17

The Bibliothèque nationale de France is where the Paris Manuscripts, the manuscripts in which the double hull design appears, currently reside. During the Italian capaign, Napoleon took many of Leonardo's works from Italy and sent them back to France. Although some of Leonardo's works were sent back to Italy after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, for example The Codex Atlanticus, most remained in France.

Source:

“The Strange Vicissitudes of Leonardo's Manuscripts.” UNESCO, 3 July 2018, en.unesco.org/courier/octobre-1974/strange-vicissitudes-leonardo-s-manuscripts.

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Napoleon's Campaign in Italy

Posted by Cooper Slack on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 23:14
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The SS Great Eastern Under Construction in Millwall, England

Posted by Cooper Slack on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 22:15
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Millwall, England

Posted by Cooper Slack on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 21:41

Located on the river Thames in London, Millwall, England was urbanized in the early 19th century after the creation of the West India Docks. It is the construction place of the SS Great Eastern, the first double hulled ship ever built and the largest ship in the world from the time it was built in 1859 till its scrapping in 1889.

Source:

"The Millwall Docks: The docks." Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. Ed. Hermione Hobhouse. London: London County Council, 1994. 353-356. British History Online. Web. 5 February 2020. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp353-356.

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Launch of the SS Great Eastern

Posted by Cooper Slack on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 21:33
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Louvre - Virgin of the Rock Painting

Posted by Madeline Quinn on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 21:22

The Louvre holds many of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings and works including the Mona Lisa, the Virtuvian Man, and many others. This museum also contains the original Virgin of the Rocks painting.  The version of the painting in the Louvre was originally held in the chapel of the San Francesco Grande in Milan.  Throughout the years this painting has withstood some damage, but there was a decision made to keep the painting in the Louvre to it's original glory, wheras the second painting, now held in the National Gallery Museum in London, was restored. 

Works Cited:

“Leonardo Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks.” ItalianRenaissance.org, www.italianrenaissance.org/leonardo-da-vincis-...

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Da Vinci and Sound Waves

Posted by Chyna Ferguson on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 20:17
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Milan, Italy

Posted by Chyna Ferguson on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 19:57

Da Vinci moved to Milan from Florence in 1482, where he worked for the ruling Sforza family as an architect, painter, engineer, and sculptor. It was during these years  in Milan that Leonardo wrote some of his most famous manuscripts, including his Codex Atlanticus. It was during his time in Milan between 1482 and 1499 that da Vinci created some of his famous masterpieces, including The Last Supper. It was also during this time that Leonardo recorded some of his greatest inventions, and recorded much of his writings about acoustics. Leonardo left Milan when it was invaded by the Frenh in 1499, but later returned from 1506- 1513. 

Today, Milan is known as the leading financial center and a prosperous manufacturing and...

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Da Vinci and Sound Waves

Posted by Chyna Ferguson on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 19:52
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Geological Sketches

Posted by Madeline Quinn on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 15:34

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