The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to offer the public of Montréal the opportunity to attend the conference by Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro, “Leonardo and his Fifth Centenary (1519-2019); Raphael: towards the fifth centenary (1520-2020)“.
Thursday, March 14 2019, 6pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
1200, Dr. Penfield Ave.
Montréal (QC), QC H3A 1A9
The conference will be held in Italian
The project focuses mainly on the artistic and architectural figure of Leonardo (1452-1519) which this year marks the fifth centenary of the death, the occasion for exhibitions and conferences worldwide. Taking account of the latest news will talk mainly of Leonardo’s relationship with architecture, already the subject of a memorable exhibition in Montreal in 1987. With scientific proof of Italian exhibitions just ended, newly opened or opening phase will be presented and illustrated. While the figure of Leonardo will engage institutions and scholars throughout the year, preparations are underway for the fifth centenary of the death of Raphael (1483-1520). There will be a preview of some exhibitions in preparation, especially the most important one that will be set up in Rome, at the Scuderie del Quirinale.
Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro is Professor of History of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin. Graduated in Florence, he taught at the School of Specialization in History of Medieval and Modern Art in Rome (La Sapienza) and was Professeur invité At the Ecole Pratique of the Hautes Etudes (Paris). He deals mainly with modern art history and architecture (Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, Piero della Francesca, Donato Bramante, Leonardo, Raphael, Ammannati), the Vitruvian tradition and the critical edition of texts of historical and artistic interest, as well as that of the historical geometric drawing. He is the author (with Giorgio Cricco) of the best-known textbook of art history in use in Italian high schools and in the first two years of university (Bologna, Zanichelli). He was a fellow at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, he is an honorary member of the Raffaello-Urbino Academy and of the Accademia Clementina-Bologna. His latest book concerns Leonardo’s Trattato del Moto e Misura dell’acqua (Zanichelli 2018). Co-curator of the Leonardesque exhibition in Turin (Royal Museums) and those of Raphael (Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, Mantua, Palazzo Ducale, Jesi, Loreto Marche) is on the scientific committee of the Leonardo da Vinci exhibitions (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Vecchio) and Venice (Gallerie dell’Accademia). He is a member of Leonardo’s scientific committee of several conferences and one of the organizers of the Paris (Leonardo e l’architettura) and Turin (Leonardo e le scienze dell’ingegneria), he is on the steering committee of the history and magazines humanistic studies.
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