Discover Da Vinci at The Lume in Melbourne this long weekend | F25025P | 2024-04-01 14:08:01
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The Lume Melbourne has labored with French Optical Engineer Pascal Cotte, a marketing consultant to The Louvre Museum for this show. He's the inventor of a multispectral digital camera that is ready to scan from ultraviolet by way of to infrared, in flip, peeling back the layers of paint in da Vinci's work and revealing hidden particulars within the Mona Lisa.
The exhibition boasts all the artist's recognized paintings and traces his life and curiosity from astronomy to engineering.
From the best way da Vinci painted beams of light beneath the chin of Woman with an Ermine to the Final Supper and it's grandiose Renaissance posturing, you're transported to a Florentine period of Italian life because of trendy know-how.
Unique pages from da Vinci's valuable Codex Atlanticus notebook can also be on display — taking us into his curiosity for anatomy, engineering, flying machines and hydraulic methods.
"There are two kinds of guests at The Lume Melbourne — the swimmer and the diver," begins Artistic Director Josh Cameron.
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"Some need to paddle around once they arrive on the immersive exhibition, others need to do all the things that's on supply immediately — from reading concerning the work and his works, to photograph alternatives for their social media, to taking house a purchase from the present store. It's the entire package deal and how individuals need to embrace artwork experiences now," he continued.
Artistic Director Andrew Montague says it's all about capturing da Vinci's most recognisable works and mixing it with a screen-based narrative for an viewers who spend lots of time within the digital world.
"In contrast to museums, you possibly can step right up and have an in depth up take a look at the work," stated Andrew Montague.
Leonardo da Vinci may need only painted 20 iconic works in his life, most popular the company of males over ladies, and painted ladies from noble households, but the exhibition dives deeper into the person behind the austere beard to offer him a real time function.
"Leonardo was a flamboyant individual, and we are enamoured by his larger-than-life character," stated Cameron.
"We have an interest into respiration new life into his story and more than that, need to take individuals on a Renaissance Italian expertise, as should you have been walking the streets he was on the time," he stated.
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And who knew that da Vinci additionally designed the primary luxury handbag in 1497 — la pretiosa, as it was recognized — first found in a sketchbook amongst hundreds of drawings by a Da Vinci scholar Carlo Pedretti in 1978. It was delivered to life as a bag in 2012 by the Italian style label Gherardini; yes, the same household identify who the well-known Mona Lisa depicts — Lisa Gherardini, an influential Florentine family of the time.
"We actually lean into the humanism that was a part of the revolution of the Renaissance once we take a look at da Vinci's life here," stated Montague.
"The exhibition captures the cultural awakening of the individual and we convey it to life via brightness and colour. & That helps us mirror the vitality that Leonardo had inside his own life, and it's an angle individuals haven't seemed into and it feels overdue," stated Montague.
"We're telling his story in a timeline, but in a means that no one has finished before."
Leonardo da Vinci — 500 Years of Genius opens at The Lume, situated on the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, on March 15, 2024.
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