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December 2, 2022 | 5 PM & Leonardo Award Ceremony | 7 PM. Refreshments will follow. In-person and virtual presentation by Martin Kemp. The Commonwealth Club of California - 110 The Embarcadero - Taube Family Auditorium, San Francisco. Five centuries after his death, Leonardo Da Vinci is attracting more attention for his art, his science and his mec...

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Appearing at the Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs on October 14th is Cordâme. The wonderfully unique group, centering around the music of composer Jean Félix Mailloux, will be presenting their latest work, Da Vinci Inventions. Always in the process of reinventing his musical language, composer Jean Félix Mailloux now transports us in...

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Leonardo da Vinci is possibly, along with Michelangelo and Dante, the most famous name in Italian art. His ingenuity didn’t only give us some of the most iconic paintings in the world – the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, just to mention the, perhaps, most famous of them all – but also creative inventions and incredible urbanistic solutions – the ne...

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“Yo, Mona Lisa, could I get a date on Friday?” sang Wyclef Jean on the Fugees’ debut album, in 1994. Around half a century earlier, Nat King Cole had crooned about Mona Lisa as the lady with the mystic smile in an Oscar-winning song. Fast-forward to 2018, when power couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z punctuated their music video filmed in the Louvre with vie...

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How could a man who stole one of the most famous paintings in the world still be a mystery more than 100 years later? It was the question that South Philly filmmakers Joe Medeiros and Justine Mestichelli Medeiros promised to answer after years of extensive research and interviews. They knew who did it. That was the easy part. But the couple, who no...

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Leonardo da Vinci may be best remembered as an artist, with his enigmatic “Mona Lisa” and his fresco “The Last Supper” ranking among the world’s most famous paintings. But, going by the numbers, art may be the least of his contributions to the world: He has only 22 paintings on display around the world and a few hundred other personal drawings. 

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One of the special tours at LDI this year is a tech tour of Perception Las Vegas, a new museum for immersive and high-tech digital art installations, opened on June 10, 2022 with the world premiere of Leonardo: The Universal Man. Chronicling the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s greatest thinkers, the hour-long, three-part journ...

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I recently discovered a treasure trove of documentaries on art produced by the BBC. Subjects range from Michelangelo’s “David” to Sandro Botticelli’s “La Primavera” to Piero della Francesca’s “The Resurrection.” The documentaries are presented in 26 episodes and are part of a series that aired on the British television network. Making my way throug...

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Six enormous, stunning tapestries designed by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael are being shown for the first time in the United States at the Columbus Museum of Art. “Raphael — The Power of Renaissance Imagery: The Dresden Tapestries and their Impact,” which continues through Oct. 30, is a collaboration between the Columbus museum and the Dre...

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Art enthusiasts can learn how well-known masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper were created at Biltmore’s latest installation in its Legends of Art & Innovation series. “Leonardo da Vinci — 500 Years of Genius” is on display at Amherst at Deerpark on the grounds of Biltmore through Feb. 20, 2023. It’s the third and final installmen...

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