{"id":40532,"date":"2025-06-19T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/leonardo-da-vinci-renaissance-genius\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:16:22","slug":"leonardo-da-vinci-renaissance-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcu-lausanne.ch\/en\/selections-en\/leonardo-da-vinci-renaissance-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance genius"},"content":{"rendered":"

2019 Year of Da Vinci<\/strong><\/p>\n

The great Italian man is celebrated everywhere. From Florence to Amboise, via Martigny, Milan, Turin, Vinci, Venice and Paris. <\/p>\n

Numerous events and exhibitions pay tribute to him.<\/p>\n

Born in 1452 in Vinci, Tuscany, he learned painting and sculpture from Verrocchio in Florence. Misunderstood in Florence, he moved to Milan to work for Duke Ludovico Sforza, known as the Moor, (The Last Supper), before moving on to Rome, Bologna and Venice as an architect and military engineer. <\/p>\n

His work is universal: artist, painter, wit, scientist, engineer, inventor, animal anatomist (Codex on bird flight) and human anatomist.<\/p>\n

Architect, royal party planner, scenographer, machinist, botanist, poet, philosopher, writer.<\/p>\n

An urban planner before his time, he conceived an ideal city and drew up plans in his famous Codex Atlanticus: flying machines, a giant crossbow, a parachute!<\/p>\n

He spent the last three years of his life with Fran\u00e7ois I at the Ch\u00e2teau du Clos Luc\u00e9. He died at the age of sixty-seven in 1519, five hundred years ago. <\/p>\n

He is buried at Ch\u00e2teau d’Amboise.<\/p>\n

A selection<\/a> of documents to discover at theentrance to the Agora of the BCU Lausanne, Riponne site <\/strong>, from May 13 to June 10.<\/p>\n

eLectures<\/a> platform<\/strong><\/p>\n