The Speed is thrilled to be one of only four museums in the United States to house this amazing exhibition, along with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition will present 35 masterpieces selected from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum including a hand written notebook of the most famous Renaissance artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Other works in the exhibition include rare, small-scale religious and secular artifacts including medieval ivories, precious jeweled goldsmith’s works, stained glass, and Renaissance bronzes highly prized for their beauty, the value of their materials and for the exquisite workmanship that went into their creation. This exhibition is rich in exquisite and unique ivories, among them the carved front cover of the Lorsch Gospels made for the court of Charlemagne, a rare carved ivory holy water bucket probably presented to the Ottonian Emperor in 980 and the only known Byzantine ivory statuette of the Virgin and Child carved entirely in the round. A national leader in arts education, serving over 30,000 children each year, the Speed Art Museum has repeatedly been voted Kentucky’s best museum and is considered one of the top ten sites each Kentuckian should visit. Anecdotes , Art Quiz , Education , Mythology , 3D Images , Last Week . read more
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Then just over a year ago it was revealed to be a fabled volume - the only surviving copy of De Ludo Schacorum by Luca Pacioli, the Franciscan friar and mathematician. De Ludo Schacorum, written in about 1500, is a collection of the sort of conundrums to be found today at the back of any up-market daily, in which the challenge is to get to checkmate in a set number of moves. In De Ludo Schacorum, also known as the Schifanoia (the “Boredom Dodger”), king, queen, bishop and knight are all represented by elegant and distinctive symbols. The foundation has invited the director of the Los Angeles-based Armand Hammer Centre for Leonardo studies, Carlo Pedretti, to make an independent assessment. All trace of De Ludo Schacorum was lost until 2006, when it was found among the 22,000-volume library of the late Count Guglielmo Coronini. read more
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The Speed is thrilled to be one of only four museums in the United States to house this amazing exhibition, along with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition will present 35 masterpieces selected from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum including a hand written notebook of the most famous Renaissance artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Other works in the exhibition include rare, small-scale religious and secular artifacts including medieval ivories, precious jeweled goldsmith’s works, stained glass, and Renaissance bronzes highly prized for their beauty, the value of their materials and for the exquisite workmanship that went into their creation. This exhibition is rich in exquisite and unique ivories, among them the carved front cover of the Lorsch Gospels made for the court of Charlemagne, a rare carved ivory holy water bucket probably presented to the Ottonian Emperor in 980 and the only known Byzantine ivory statuette of the Virgin and Child carved entirely in the round. A national leader in arts education, serving over 30,000 children each year, the Speed Art Museum has repeatedly been voted Kentucky’s best museum and is considered one of the top ten sites each Kentuckian should visit. Anecdotes , Art Quiz , Education , Mythology , 3D Images , Last Week . read more
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Subscribe to the Mail & Guardian newspaper or the M&G Online ’s free email newsletter and get 15% discount on books at the Exclusive Books website. The pet rabbit of Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, Leonardo da Vinci, has died, the Telegraf newspaper reported on Thursday. Nicknamed Lisis, the five-year-old bunny possibly died of stress caused by a recent relocation to the presidential residence, Zatlers told the TV 5 channel. The presidential pet, dubbed the First Bunny by the media, was thrown into the political arena along with his owner when Parliament appointed the politically unknown surgeon Zatlers as the president of the small Baltic country in May last year. read more
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