Apologies for cross-posting
You are cordially invited to attend the following public lecture:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/#GG
The Leonardo da Vinci Society Annual Lecture:
'New Evidence of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper as a Humanist Contribution'
by Dr Matthew Landrus
(Rhode Island School of Design and University of Oxford)
This Friday, 27 April 2012 at 6.00 pm
At the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House, Strand, London
Admission is free - all are welcome
Following an extensive period of research on the recently restored Last
Supper, there is new evidence of Leonardo’s intentions for it as a Humanist
contribution to the Sforza Court. Detailed assessments of the painting’s
preparatory marks, measurements, designs, and associated texts offer
proof of its role within the socio-political activities of the Court, and more
specifically within a Humanist debate developing in Florence and Milan.
It was for Leonardo an opportunity to argue in a visual manner the role of
Painting as the ultimate artifice of Nature, reason and experience. His Last
Supper is in this case a more complex, holistic contribution than
previously determined, an early form of manifesto on Painting as a
systematic, Humanist discourse within the Liberal Arts.
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