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Protagonisti degli Studi Leonardiani
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The lecture will be given in Italian Jonathan K. Nelson: Bio-bibliography Jonathan K. Nelson was born in New York, where he obtained his doctorate at the Institute of Fine Arts, under the supervision of Sir John Pope-Hennessy. Since 1994 he has been a professor of art history at Syracuse University in Florence; also in Florence, he was a fellow at the Fondazione Roberto Longhi and at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies “Villa I Tatti.” He co-curated two major exhibitions in Florence, “Venus and Love. Michelangelo and the new ideal of beauty” (Galleria dell’Accademia, 2002) and “Botticelli and Filippino” (Palazzo Strozzi, 2004). Starting with his first public conference, in 1990 in Vinci, on the sculptor Pierino da Vinci, he has lectured and published widely, especially on fifteenth and sixteenth century Florentine art. Among his books are Plautilla Nelli: The First Women Painter in Florence (2000) and Michelangelo: Poesia e Scultura (2003). Recently co-authored, with Patrizia Zambrano, a monumental study of Filippino Lippi (2004), where he explored the painter’s relationship with Leonardo. Together with the economist Richard Zeckhauser, he is now completing The Patron’s Payoff, a book on Italian Renaissance patronage. |
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Vinciane
Every year, around the middle of April, the city of Vinci remembers the birth of Leonardo with the Celebrazioni Leonardiane, or Leonardo Celebrations, whose most significant event is the Lettura Vinciana.Since 1960 the Biblioteca Leonardiana has entrusted the most meaningful exponents of Da Vinci historiography with the task of examining one of the manifold sectors Leonardo developed in his work. The continuity of this event and the lecturers’ undisputed professionalism (none of whom could be quoted without doing wrong to the others) have turned the Lettura in a cultural event of great interest, in which the fundamental tendencies and the main protagonists of Leonardo studies in the last decades emerge. The words Augusto Marinoni, a famous Leonardo scholar, opens the I Lettura Vinciana in 1960 with suggestively evoke the purpose in giving birth to the Letture Vinciane:
"The project we are on the point of undertaking and that we hope will be able to continue to be renewed every year, aims at being an essay-reading that illustrates a single page of Leonardo’s manuscripts and, at the same time, can grasp – throughout all his works – the ramification and the developments of his thought, in order to disperse, if possible, the ambiguities every isolated fragment is often wrapped in, as if it were surrounded by a halo which fascinates above all those who love finding in it the pretexts for their fantasies." (In: Augusto Marinoni, L’essere del nulla, I Lettura Vinciana, 24 April 1960) List of the Letture Vinciane I. Augusto Marinoni, L'essere
del nulla, 24.4.1960 |