Volume edited by teachers UCBM and presented in Vinci and Beijing
11 April 2019 - It is May 2, 1519 and near Amboise, France, Leonardo da Vinci dies. He is his favorite pupil, Giovanni Francesco Melzi, the heir to the numerous writings and drawings on painting that the Italian genius created during his career. And Melzi himself, taking care of their reorganization and faithful transcription, will give shape to a volume known as the Book o Treaty of Painting, today preserved in the Vatican Apostolic Library as the Latin Urbinate Code 1270. Completed around 1540 in its extended form, two abbreviated versions, French and Italian, were published in print in 1651 in Paris.
Of the first edition, to date, very few manuscripts are known, made in an abbreviated version and immediately following the editio princeps of 1651. Of these, The Laura Code was analyzed by the teachers UCBM Giampaolo Ghilardi, Sergio Morini e Vittoradolfo Tambone to give life to a multidisciplinary in-depth project, in line with Leonardo's approach.
Indeed, in his notes, in order to be able to talk about painting, Leonardo questions himself about what painting is, whether it is possible to include it among the sciences and, ultimately, whether painting can be considered as the best of the sciences, embracing and touching a vast range of disciplines that outline the reading prism.
According to this multidisciplinary approach, the study conducted and guided byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, makes use of scientific contributions from the most disparate sectors, including anatomy, physics of light, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, to name a few, which will flow into the publication of the volume The Laura Code. Study of the apograph of the Treatise on Painting of Leonardo da Vinci now close to release. Project partners are the Ideal Leonardo Da Vinci Museum and the Rossana Foundation e Carlo Pedretti.
In addition to Vinci, a double presentation in Beijing, the first on April 15 at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the most important academy of fine arts in China, the second on April 16 at the Italian Embassy in China. The topics covered in the volume will be discussed during the seminar Leonardo and humanities for medicine, scheduled for May 15 right in UCBM.
