Speaker: Nicola Barbadelli
Sep 11th, 6:30pm
Cafa Art Museum
Free Entrance
West gate of CAFAM
In Italian with Chinese translation
Introduction to the Lecture
The lecture is about Leonardo’s life, from training in Verrocchio’s workshop, to moving to France. All is underlining Leonardo’s contribution to the art of the Renaissance and his influences in the circle of his followers.
Leonardo da Vinci was certainly the greatest genius of his time. He was educated in Florence, in the workshop of Verrocchio and aftera first schooling, he moved to Milan employed by Ludovico il Moro. At this precise moment, Leonardo worked on his first Milanese work: The Virgin of the Rocks. This grandiose painting certainly represents the first encounter between Leonardo and the Milanese artistic culture. It will be precisely this masterpiece that will open the doors of success to Leonardo, a success that also led to the formation of a first artistic workshop. He worked on paintings, sculpture and design, while his followers embellished that art by following advice and becoming bearers of an artistic movement: leonardism. This cultural concept developed between Milan, Venice, Rome and part of Europe, with widespread results up until the 17th century.
Investigating this line of research opens the door to a new understanding of Leonardism: this phenomenon that still does not end and instead returns convincingly suggestive and fascinating.
Introduction to the speaker:
Nicola Barbatelli is an italian art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance art. He is a scholar of Leonardo and his school; he is the author of at least fifteen monographs, researcher and reader of the work of the Master of Vinci.
He was a follower of the major expert of Leonardo da Vinci, prof. Carlo Pedretti, and with him he published a very recent monographon the subject of the Salvator Mundi. Always with prof. Pedretti, Nicola Barbatelli has written two essays and edited four monographic exhibitions on Leonardo.
Professor Nicola Barbatelli is currently the scientific director of the Museo delle Antiche Genti in Lucania, the major center of study on Leonardo in Southern Italy.
Among his discoveries is the Tavola Lucana, the enigmatic painting depicting the face of Leonardo that after five centuries returns the true image of the master.