{"id":59391,"date":"2019-09-11T14:36:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=59391"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:34","slug":"carleton-to-host-lecture-on-leonardo-da-vincis-understanding-of-god-and-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carleton-to-host-lecture-on-leonardo-da-vincis-understanding-of-god-and-the-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton to Host Lecture on Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Understanding of God and the Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton to Host Lecture on Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Understanding of God and the Cosmos\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Carleton University Art History<\/a> Prof. Randi Klebanoff, will present the lecture The Divine Nature of Leonardo<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>While modern audiences embrace Leonardo da Vinci as a secular scientist and artistic genius, Klebanoff will examine da Vinci\u2019s work through concepts of God and the cosmos that informed his 15th<\/sup> century world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lecture is part of Cinquecento: Carleton Celebrates Leonardo da Vinci<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When<\/strong>: Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019 at 7 p.m.
\nWhere<\/strong>: Room 100, St. Patrick\u2019s Building, Carleton
\nInfo<\/strong>: This event is free and open to the public. Registration is available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this lecture, Klebanoff will explore how his highly original depictions of the divine related to 15th<\/sup> century efforts to imagine God\u2019s paradoxical immanence and transcendence in the world and to theological ideas of nature, cognition and the divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About <\/strong>Randi Klebanoff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klebanoff\u2019s research focuses on representation of the immaterial in Renaissance naturalism, particularly the intersection of pre-modern theology, theories of vision and representation. Her other research interests include representation of Jews in the Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance sculpture (in particular Niccol\u00f2 dell\u2019Arca and Michelangelo), the imagery of women in Renaissance art and the Renaissance city in its many dynamics. Klebanoff regularly teaches history and methods of art history and is cross-appointed to the College of the Humanities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Cinquecento: Carleton Celebrates Leonardo da Vinci<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cinquecento: Carleton Celebrates Leonardo da Vinci <\/em>is a year-long celebration that looks at da Vinci\u2019s work with fresh eyes. In Italian, \u201cCinquecento\u201d means 500 and, for this series of events, refers to the 500 years since his passing. During Cinquecento, <\/em>Carleton\u2019s faculties come together to explore da Vinci\u2019s interdisciplinary innovations. Cinquecento<\/em> is a comprehensive look at the life and work of one of history\u2019s most fascinating people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carleton University Art History Prof. Randi Klebanoff, will present the lecture The Divine Nature of Leonardo. While modern audiences embrace Leonardo da Vinci as a secular scientist and artistic genius, Klebanoff will examine da Vinci\u2019s work through concepts of God and the cosmos that informed his 15th century world. This lecture is part of Cinquecento: Carleton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":55370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[147,104,169],"class_list":["post-59391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-advisories","tag-art-history-2","tag-science","tag-humanities"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59397,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59391\/revisions\/59397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}