On the occasion of the V Centenary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci (1519-2019), the Italian Cultural Institute and the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics of Concordia University are pleased to present within the course of “Italian Civilization I “, held by Prof. Dario Brancato, conference by Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro, “Leonardo da Vinci: Nature and the power of water“.
Monday September 30th 2019, 10:15am -11:30am
Concordia University
Hall Building, aula H-429, IV piano
1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montréal
Conference held in Italian
The element of water has always attracted the attention, observation and investigation of Leonardo da Vinci, dedicating a considerable amount of annotations to the theme in various manuscript codes and in particular in Ms. F (Paris, Institut de France) and in the Leicester Code (Seattle, Collection of Bill and Melinda Gates). In the seventeenth century the Dominican Luigi Maria Arconati collected many hydraulic notes, extracting them from the same codes of Leonardo preserved in his father’s library and ordering them in a manuscript codex, which later became known under the title Del moto e misura dell’acqua (1643), preserved today in Vatican Apostolic Library and recently republished anastatic edition by Zanichelli publisher in 2018 (Bologna) and accompanied by a learned introductory essay by Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro and twenty-nine new plates taken from the original manuscripts.
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 École pratique des hautes études (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 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…) 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 humanistic studies journals.