{"id":507,"date":"2019-03-29T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/leonardo2019\/?p=507"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:12:46","slug":"cinquecento-celebrates-the-extensive-legacy-of-leonardo-da-vinci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/leonardo2019\/2019\/cinquecento-celebrates-the-extensive-legacy-of-leonardo-da-vinci\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinquecento Celebrates the Extensive Legacy of Leonardo da Vinci"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cinquecento Celebrates the Extensive Legacy of Leonardo da Vinci\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"u-block u-block--white u-scroll-div\">\n<div class=\"b-text-intro u-width-small u-text-align-c u-underline\">\n<p><em>By Tyrone Burke<\/em><br>\n<em>Photos by Chris Roussakis<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"u-block u-block--white\">\n<div class=\"l-post u-width-small\">\n<p>La Gioconda \u2013 known to English-speakers as the Mona Lisa \u2013 is the best-known painting at the world\u2019s most prestigious art gallery, but the creator of the Louvre\u2019s famous masterpiece only considered painting to be a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance man, a prolific visionary whose genius irrevocably advanced engineering, physics, health sciences and art, while also leading to interesting insights about mathematics, mainly geometry.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54886\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/manuel-baez-podium2-1200x680.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"680\"><\/figure><div id=\"attachment_54886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This year is the 500th anniversary of Leonardo\u2019s death, and Carleton University is marking his influence with a <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/leonardo2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">year-long celebration of his legacy called Cinquecento<\/a>, an Italian term for the cultural and artistic flourishing on the Apennine peninsula in the 1500s.<\/p>\n<p>On March 22, 2019, Cinquecento launched with the opening of Diluvio, an exhibition of wire-mesh sculptures that draw inspiration from Leonardo\u2019s Diluvio drawings. Translated as deluge, the Diluvio drawings sketch out the dynamic properties of air and water in motion, channeled through the power of cataclysmic storms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are sections in Leonardo\u2019s notebooks where he absolutely praises nature\u2019s creativity,\u201d says Manuel B\u00e1ez, associate professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/cinquecento-leonardo-da-vinci\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tyrone Burke Photos by Chris Roussakis La Gioconda \u2013 known to English-speakers as the Mona Lisa \u2013 is the best-known painting at the world\u2019s most prestigious art gallery, but the creator of the Louvre\u2019s famous masterpiece only considered painting to be a hobby. 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