{"id":743,"date":"2019-10-30T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/leonardo2019\/?p=743"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:12:46","slug":"november-is-a-busy-month-for-cinquecento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/leonardo2019\/2019\/november-is-a-busy-month-for-cinquecento\/","title":{"rendered":"November is a busy month for Cinquecento!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n November is a busy month for Cinquecento!\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Check out the following FIVE<\/strong> free, public Cinquecento and Leonardo da Vinci-themed events taking place at Carleton during the month of November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, Nov. 4: Performing Arts
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SmarTalk Leonardo da Vinci
\nBy Gruppo Jobel, an international organization founded in Rome in 1998 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jobel\u2019s mission is to communicate cultural, technical, scientific, and commercial content through performing arts, visual arts and new technologies. For the first time in Canada, on the occasion of the 2019 Italian Language Week in the World, Leonardo\u2019s captivating and yet mysterious personality will be told through the fusion of several disciplines: singing, dancing, storytelling and academic content. Lorenzo Cognatti, Jobel\u2019s founder and creative director, wanted to paint Leonardo\u2019s complex personality, showing him also as a woman. The event will be in English with sections in Italian to hear the Leonardesque language in its original form. Among the guest speakers is Carleton Prof. Angelo Mingarelli and three performers from Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, Nov. 13: Science Caf\u00e9 <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Leonardo\u2019s Excursions into Mathematics
\nBy Cinquecento Chair and Carleton Mathematics and Statistics Prof. Angelo Mingarelli<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this presentation, Prof. Angelo Mingarelli will explore Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s (1452-1519) various excursions into the realm of mathematics (arithmetic and geometry and their applications). He will examine how da Vinci spent close to 20 years trying to \u201csquare the circle\u201d and solve such other unsolvable problems that, of course, he didn\u2019t know were unsolvable at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday, Nov. 15: Cinquecento Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Alchemy of Geniuses: Leonardo and Other Polymaths of the Italian Renaissance
\nBy Cristina Perissinotto, Associate Professor of Italian Studies & Director of the Italian Program, University of Ottawa <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did the Italian Renaissance create so much beauty, and so many geniuses and polymaths? In this talk, Perissinotto shall encounter renowned geniuses, such as Leonardo da Vinci, as well as other Renaissance polymaths. She will attempt to find answers to the question above: why the preponderance of beauty in Renaissance art and cities, who were some of the polymaths of the Italian Renaissance, and why did this historical period produce so many?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, Nov. 21: Faculty of Science Herzberg Lecture 2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Leonardo\u2019s Salvator Mundi: The Story and the Research
\nBy Martin Kemp, Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things are rarely straightforward with Leonardo. Myths proliferate. His rediscovered Salvator, revealed to the public for the first time in 2011, has already been engulfed by stories that have little to do with the picture itself. This lecture will provide an accurate account of its discovery, provenance, exhibition, reception and sale (for $450 million!), and will look at all aspects of the image in the contexts of Leonardo\u2019s career, showing how it embodies his unique fusion of science, imagination, psychology and theology. It is this fusion that precludes its attribution to anyone other than Leonardo himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, Nov. 25: Cinquecento Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anatomy, Geology and Their Influence on Leonardo\u2019s Art<\/strong>
\nBy Domenico Laurenza, a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laurenza will discuss how and why an artist turned into an anatomist and, at the same time, studied the earth like a scientist. He will dig deeper into what Leonardo\u2019s scientific studies consisted of in these two fields, in which perhaps, as a scientist, he achieved the best results. These studies were the connections with his artistic work through the representation of the human figure and landscape, furthering the connections with his scientific research between the study of the human body or microcosm, and the study of the body of the earth or macrocosm. The lecture will try to provide an answer to these questions and will be an occasion of synthesis between the researches dedicated by Laurenza to Leonardo\u2019s anatomical studies and, more recently, Leonardo\u2019s geological work. In particular, with regard to this last field, the lecture will anticipate new evidences emerged during the preparation of the new edition of Leonardo\u2019s Codex Leicester, currently in print (Oxford University Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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