A 600-year-old terracotta bust found beneath a pile of rubbish in an Italian palazzo may be the work of Leonardo Da Vinci. The work, showing a sorrowful-looking man believed to be St Jerome, is thought to be by the Renaissance master because of its exquisite craftsmanship, expressive power and realism. Initially the bust, found in the Palazzo Chigi Saracini in Siena, was thought to be by Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488), who worked at the court of Lorenzo de’ Medici in nearby Florence. The nose, forehead and ears are damaged but Perugia University historian Giancarlo Gentilini said there was a “strong possibility” it was by Da Vinci. The skull is similar to Da Vinci’s painting of St Jerome in the Wilderness which hangs in the Vatican Museum. The way to save capitalism will be hotly debated in London this week and suddenly the man who predicted its demise is fashionable again.
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The exhibition will also feature work by Donatello, Rubens, Verrocchio, and Rustici—including Rustici’s three monumental bronzes from the faēade of the Baptistery in Florence that comprise “John the Baptist Preaching to a Levite and a Pharisee,” which was recently restored and has never left Florence. The exhibition will shed new light on Leonardo’s seminal role in the development of Renaissance sculpture and the work of artists who followed him through an examination of the sculpture that Leonardo studied, the sketches and studies he created for his own sculptural projects (the majority of which were never realized), and his interactions with other Renaissance sculptors. The initial section of the exhibition, “Leonardo, Master Sculptor,” will feature drawings associated with Leonardo’s plans for other works of sculpture, including an in-depth examination of Leonardo’s plans to create the world’s largest and most technically complex statue, a work which was to depict Duke Francesco Sforza mounted on horseback. In addition to the Sforza monument, the exhibition will examine two of Leonardo’s other equestrian projects for Gian Giacomo Trivulzio and King Francis I of France through the artists’ compositional and anatomical studies as well as drawings for proportioning, modeling, and casting the enormous Sforza monument. The final section of the exhibition will also feature Giovanni Francesco Rustici’s three larger-than-life-sized bronze figures that comprise “John the Baptist Preaching to a Levite and a Pharisee,” which has been recently restored and will be shown outside of Florence for the first time.
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Leonardo da Vinci was one of mankindās great inventors, dreaming up devices that were years ahead of their time. The network assembles a team of 21st-century experts who try to create working prototypes from the masterās plans to see if they will actually function, or if some genius ideas are better left in the history books. Among the weapons the team tries to assemble are an armored tank, a three-story siege ladder, a machine gun and a scythe chariot. The āDoing da Vinciā team consists of special effects expert and mechanical designer Valek Sykes, HGTV āCurb Appealā host and carpenter Bill Duggan, designer and puppeteer Jurgen Heimann and mechanical engineer and entrepreneur Alan Bovinett. Jonathan Pevsner, an expert on Leonardo da Vinci, who advises the team and provides insight into history and da Vinciās intent. Craig Piligian and Rob Katz are executive producers for Pilgrim; Tim Pastore is executive producer for Discovery.
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Another arm snips at the base of the fleshy organ with a steel claw while a third manipulates a tiny camera that sends gorgeous images of glistening innards onto video screens all around the darkened room. The eerily precise and silent surgeon hovering over the Madison patient last month in a UW Hospital operating room was a robot named da Vinci, after Leonardo da Vinci, the 15th century Italian genius who made sketches and then a wooden model of the world’s first human robot. Robotic surgery offers other distinct advantages over the standard “open” surgeries of the past, they say, and even over other forms of minimally invasive surgery, or laparoscopy, which surgeons perform with long instruments through punctures in the human body. Once the robot dissected the bladder and pulled it out like a deflated balloon through one of the small access holes, Gee swung into action — the old-fashioned way. A California company headed by Frederic Moll, one of the founders of da Vinci’s parent company, is marketing a robot that can pluck and transplant 1,000 individual hair follicles per hour from one part of the scalp to another to treat baldness. And the military, whose research into remote-control technology helped inspire the da Vinci not long ago, is exploring the concept of a trauma pod for the battlefield.
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