Sunday, October 5, 2008

Art and Science in the Italian Renaissance

'Art and Science in the Italian Renaissance: The Animal World',
London, 7 November 2008

LEONARDO DA VINCI SOCIETY
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/


The conference is a contribution to the Leonardo da Vinci Society's
occasional series of one-day meetings on subjects of both scientific
and artistic interest.

Date: Friday 7 November 2008
Time: 1000 to 1800
Place: School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD

Speakers will include

FRANCIS AMES-LEWIS (Birkbeck, University of London), on animal
drawings by Pisanello and others.

MONICA AZZOLINI (University of Edinburgh), 'Leonardo da Vinci and Generation'.

J. V. FIELD (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Athanasius Kircher on Music'.

ANDREW GREGORY (University College London), 'Harvey on the Nature and
Uses of Animals'.

MARTIN KEMP (University of Oxford) on Leonardo da Vinci and the horse.

VIVIAN NUTTON (Wellcome Unit, University College London), 'Cutting up
animals is (academically) wrong: resolving the Vesalian dilemma'.

Date: Friday 7 November 2008
Time: 1000 to 1800
Place: School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
(nearest tube stations: Russell Square (Piccadilly Line), Euston
Square (Circle and Metropolitan Lines), Euston (Circle, Metropolitan,
Northern and Victoria Lines))

The registration fee, which includes morning and afternoon coffee or
tea, is 15 pounds for members of the Leonardo da Vinci Society and
the unwaged, 20 pounds for non-members. Please make cheques payable
to the Society and send to the Hon Treasurer, Tony Mann, School of
Computing and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Greenwich, Old
Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS. Advance registration
is preferred, but payments may be made at the door.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, please contact the organisers: Prof Francis
Ames-Lewis , Dr J. V. Field
.

The Leonardo da Vinci Society (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/leonardo/)
is a Registered Charity, number 1012878.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

OK this is not what i was looking for you need to make a website on the italian renaissance like science and catography and engineering not things like that.I have to do a project and it would be really helpful to have websites that really helped you.

Anonymous said...

same thing here this is really retarded