This traveling exhibition is dedicated to the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci, the universal man who succeeded as an inventor, artist, scientist, engineer, sculptor, anatomist, biologist, musician, architect and philosopher.
Running from 7th February to 19th July 2009 in the VAM Design Center this educational exhibition is a comprehensive collection featuring:
25 secret revelations about Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous painting with a giant infrared 4m x 3m photograph;
full-scale machine inventions recreated from Da Vinci’s original drawings;
reproductions of his most famous Renaissance art; master’s anatomical sketches and sculptures.
VAM Design Center
VI. Király utca 26
Opening Times:
08:00 - 20:00 daily
7th February 2009 to 19th July 2009
Leonardo’s notebooks are famous largely for the incredible scientific speculations they contain. Sketches of cannon firing projectiles demonstrate his knowledge of ballistics, while his numerous sketches of flowing rivers betray a highly advanced knowledge of hydrodynamics. He also recorded numerous astronomical observations, as well as astonishing designs for new inventions, including flying machines, proposals for submarines, tanks, bicycles, parachutes, gear shifts, and water pumps. Leonardo’s notebooks reveal a mind of the highest order and knowledge that was far in advance of his time. However, because his notebooks were not published until many centuries after his death, his shared hosting discoveries did not make any significant impact on Western civilization. Had his scientific breakthroughs and inventions become widely known among his contemporaries, the course of history would likely have been very different.