The Leonardo da Vinci Society
Approaches to Art and Science After Berenson
A conference in honour of Martin Kemp
On Friday 22 October 2010, Ms. Gheri Sackler and the Leonardo da Vinci
Society will host at St. John's College Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum
a conference on the relationship between scientific models in nature and
the theory and practice of art. It will address results of forty years
of cross-disciplinary approaches to the histories of art and science.
The main reason for this conference is to honour Emeritus Professor
Martin Kemp, a former Hon. President of the Leonardo da Vinci Society,
who retired from the University of Oxford in 2008.
The programme includes:
Mr. David Hockney, CH, RA: Reflections on the Lost Techniques of Old
Masters
Professor Frank Zollner (Universitat Leipzig): Automimesis -The History
of an Idea
Professor Donald Preziosi (University of Calfornia, Los Angeles):
Pausanias' Polygnotus and the Parallax of Parnassos
Professor Claire Farago (University of Colorado): The Artless Art of
Leonardo's Treatise on Painting, c. 1570
Professor Francesca Fiorani (University of Virginia): Leonardo's Shadows
Professor Domenico Laurenza (Mus eo Galileo, Florence): Sixteenth
Century Anatomical Drawings & Prints. How Scientists were indebted to
Artists: New Evidence
Mr. Francis Wells (Papworth Hospital, Cambridge): The Accuracy and
Modern Relevance of Leonardo's Anatomical Studies of the Heart
Dr. J.V. Field, (Birkbeck, University of London): Panofsky on Perspective
Professor Philip Steadman (University College, London): 2D to 3D:
Adventures with Martin Kemp in Reconstructing the Space of Paintings
Registration forms and further information available here:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo
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