Exhibition Credits
Under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic
28th Exhibition of the European Council
European Council
Universal Leonardo
Firenze 2006 - A Year in Art
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The Mind of Leonardo inaugurates the series of events entitled The Universal Leonardo, which are part
of the prestigious programme of the 28th Exhibition of Art, Science and Culture promoted by the European Council
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Promoting Institutions

Italian Ministry of Cultural Assets and Activities
    Special Superintendence for the State Museums of Florence
    Firenze Musei

Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze

 

Concept and Scientific Coordination

Paolo Galluzzi

 

Scientific Committee

Marzia Faietti
Director, Drawing and Print Collection, Uffizi Gallery

Paolo Galluzzi
Director, Institute and Museum of the History of Science and University of Florence

Antonio Natali
Director, Uffizi Gallery

Antonio Paolucci
Regional Director, Beni Culturali e Paesaggistici della Toscana and Superintendent, State Museums of Florence

Carlo Pedretti
University of California, Los Angeles and Director, Hammer Center for Leonardo Studies, UCLA

Maurizio Seracini
EDITECH and University of Calabria

 

Section Curators

   
Section I
(The “Modern Manner”)
Antonio Natali
       
   
Section II
(The Face of the Genius)
Carlo Pedretti
       
   
Section III
(In Leonardo's Studio)
Fabio Frosini (Leonardo's Library), Paolo Galluzzi and Filippo Camerota (Leonardo's Writing Desk)
       
   
Section IV
(The Grammar of Forms)
Domenico Laurenza with Paolo Galluzzi (The Equilibrium of Forms), Filippo Camerota (Transformation and Metamorphosis) and Andrea Bernardoni (The Sforza Monument)
       
   
Section V
(Motion: the Universal Agent)
Paolo Galluzzi (The Elements and the Four “Forces” of Nature, The “Pyramidal” Law , The Chimera of Perpetual Motion, The Motion and Force of Man, The Motion and Force of the Elements), Domenico Laurenza (Harmonic and Programmed Motion, Motions of Consumption, Motions of the Mind)
       
   
Section VI
(The Science of Painting)
Simona Cremante with Jacques Franck (The Invention of 'sfumato') and with the collaboration of Stella Battaglia and Gianni Miglietta
       
   
Section VII
(At the time of the "Battle of Anghiari" (1504-1508))

From Oct. 3 2006 - Jan. 7, 2007
Gigetta Dalli Regoli, Paolo Galluzzi, Domenico Laurenza, Carlo Pedretti, Annalisa Perissa
       
 

Technical Sponsor

Hitachi - Inspire the Next

 

Organization

Coordination: Institute and Museum of the History of Science and Comitato Scienza Cultura e Innovazione: Laura Manetti, with the collaboration of Giulia Fiorenzoli and Elisa Bonaiuti

Opera Laboratori Fiorentini on behalf of Firenze Musei

Special Superintendence for the State Museums of Florence: Marta Bencini

   
 

Exhibition and Graphic Design

Studio Gris Co. srl, Padua-Rome

With the collaboration of Antonio Godoli, Architetto, Uffizi Gallery, and Piero Castri, Opera Laboratori Fiorentini

   
 

Exhibition Staging and Management

Opera Laboratori Fiorentini

   
 

Video Projection Facilities

Production: Hitachi Ltd., Japan

Installation and maintenance: Natali Multimedia; Institute and Museum of the History of Science: Gabriele Pratesi

   
 

Exhibits

Coordination: Institute and Museum of the History of Science: Paolo Galluzzi

Concept and design: unless otherwise indicated, the exhibits are the conception of the relative curators of each section and sub-section

Modeling: Opera Laboratori Fiorentini; Stella Battaglia and Gianni Miglietta; Romano Folicaldi; Alberto Gorla

   
 

Artwork

Stella Battaglia and Gianni Miglietta

Romano Lucacchini

Niccolò Niccolai and Laura Stiattesi

   
 

Multimedia Applications

Production: Multimedia Laboratory of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Coordination: Jacopo Tonini

Graphics and 2D animations: Monica Tassi with the collaboration of Silvia Paoli, Daniela Vespoli and Roberta Massaini

3D models and animations: Luisa Barattin with the collaboration of Riccardo Braga, Fabio Corica, Roberta Massaini

Text: unless otherwise indicated, text is by the relative curators of each section and sub-section

   
 

Exhibition Website

Institute and Museum of the History of Science: Marco Berni and Danette St.Onge with the collaboration of Fabrizio Butini, Leonardo Curioni, Elena Fani, Iolanda Rolfo and Corrado Veser

   
 

Photographic Production Coordination

Franca Principe with the collaboration of Sabina Bernacchini, Paola Scortecci and Susanna Cimmino

Image optimization: Andrea Braghiroli

   
 

Digital Image Elaboration

Senza Filtro, Florence

   
 

Exhibition Films

The Mountain on the Sea - Leonardo’s Annunciation
    Concept and text: Antonio Natali
    Direction: Vincenzo Capalbo and Marilena Bertozzi
    Production: Art Media Studio

Beyond the Visible - Rediscovering the Adoration
    Concept and text: Antonio Natali, Filippo Camerota and Maurizio Seracini
    Perspective diagrams and animated models: IMSS Multimedia Laboratory
    Direction: Cristiana and Riccardo Mastropietro
    Production: Pesci Combattenti and Neworld

Leonardo's Colossus - the Challenge of the Sforza Monument
    Concept and text: Andrea Bernardoni
    3D Models and animations: IMSS Multimedia Laboratory
    Direction: Cristiana e Riccardo Mastropietro
    Production: Pesci Combattenti and Neworld

Ejzenštejn and the Last Supper
    Concept: Paolo Galluzzi
    Direction: Cristiana and Riccardo Mastropietro
    Production: Pesci Combattenti and Neworld

The Theatre of Passions
    Concept and text: Domenico Laurenza and Giovanni Micoli
    Direction: Cristiana and Riccardo Mastropietro
    Dramatic interpretation: Giovanni Micoli
    Production: Pesci Combattenti and Neworld

On the Set of the Last Supper
    Consultant: Marco Pistoia
    Production: Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Leonardo's “Deluges”
    Concept and text: Carlo Pedretti
    Direction and production: Mark Whitney

The “Battle of Anghieri”
    Concept and text: Gigetta Dalli Regoli, Paolo Galluzzi and Carlo Pedretti
    3D Models: Fabio Corica
     Production: Institute and Museum of the History of Science

   
 

English Translations

Catherine Frost and Danette St.Onge

   
 

Transportation of Original Works

Arteria srl, Florence

   
 

Promotion and Public Relations

Opera Laboratori Fiorentini on behalf of Firenze Musei: Mariella Becherini

   
 

Press Office

Sveva Fede

Florence and Tuscany: Camilla Speranza

European Council: Lucrezia Titi

   
 

Press Office Secretariat

Firenze Musei

   
 

Catalogues

The Mind of Leonardo - The Universal Genius at Work
Edited by Paolo Galluzzi
Giunti Editore, Florence-Milan

The Mind of Leonardo - At the time of the “Battle of Anghiari” (1504-1508)
Edited by Carlo Pedretti
Giunti Editore, Florence-Milan

   
 

We thank for their collaboration:

- Softeam for the generous support of the Digital Library applications

- Kalpa Group and Loel Guinness for having made possible the scientific analyses conducted by EDITECH of the Adorazione dei Magi and Leonardo's paintings in the Uffizi Gallery

- Vito Cappellini and the International Centre of Excellence on Digital Image System - Florence for their valuable contribution

   
 

We also thank:

Joyce Acciaioli, Cristina Acidini, Geneviève Aitken, Learco Andalò, Franca Arduini, Vanna Arrighi, Maurizio Bacci, Ségolène Bergeon Langle, Giovanna Bernard, Rosanna Binacchi, Paolo Boggio, Sara Bonechi, Maurizo Boni, Elaine Casabuona, Stefano Casati, Alessandro Cecchi Paone, Aldo Cecconi, Elisabetta Cioppi, Lucia Corrieri Verri, Anna Corsi, Emilio Cremonesi, Rosaria D’Alfonso, Gigetta Dalli Regoli, Robert Davies, Elena Della Valle, Alfio Del Serra, Ursula Fischer, Antonia Ida Fontana, Varena Forcione, Pier Luigi Foschi, Marco Fossi, Riccardo Francovich, Cecilia Frosinini, Giorgio Geddes da Filicaia, Irene Gennarelli, Marco Giorgetti, Antonio Godoli, Alberto and Rosa Gorla, Mario Helbing, Toshiro Kamiuchi, Karen Lawson, Giovanna Lazzi, Alessandra Lenzi, Maria Anna Lora, Marino Marini, Alfredo Melgar, Attilio Mina, Jean-Pierre Mohen, Letizia Montalbano, Elena Montali, Luciano Mori, Theresa-Mary Morton, Christiane Naffah, Elisabetta Nardinocchi, Nilvio Natali, Giovanna Scirè Nepi, Joseph Padfield, Victor Palchetti Beard, Mirko Peripimeno, Luca Pezzati, Annalisa Perissa, Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Carla Pinzauti, Paola Pirolo, Massimo Pivetti, Ilaria Poggi, Antonio Quattrone, Elisabeth Ravaud, Jane Roberts, Fabio Roversi Monaco, Ashok Roy, Patrizia Ruffo, Paola Salvi, Chiara Segafredo, Giorgio Strano, Mario Taddei, Isabella Truci, Muriel Vervat, Alessandro Vezzosi, Françoise Viatte, Edoardo Villata, Nathalie Volle, Edoardo Zanon.

   
 

LENDERS

Vatican Apostolic Library, Vatican City

Laurentian Library, Florence

Panizzi Library, Reggio Emilia

National Central Library, Florence

National Central Library, Rome

Royal Library, Turin

Riccardian Library, Florence

The British Library, London

The British Museum, London

Gallandt Collection, Rome

Rucellai Collection, Milan

City of Florence
     Museum of the Palazzo Vecchio

Giunti Editore, Florence-Milan

Alberto Gorla, Cividale Mantovano

Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Pontifical Monuments, Museums and Galleries, Vatican City

Musée du Louvre, Paris
    Graphic Arts Department
    Sculpture Department

Musei Comunali di Rimini

Museum of the Horne Foundation, Florence

Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, Paleontology Section

Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence

The Rossana and Carlo Pedretti Foundation, Los Angeles

The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

Schlossmuseum, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und Kunstsammlungen, Weimar

Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Tuscany
     National Archaeological Museum, Florence

Special Superintendence for the State Museums of Florence
    Deposito Gallerie Fiorentine
    Drawing and Print Collection, Uffizi Gallery
    Uffizi Gallery
    Bargello National Museum

Special Superintendence for the State Museums of Rome
     Borghese Museum and Gallery

Special Superintendence for for the State Museums of Venice
     Accademia Gallery, Drawing and Print Collection

Villamonte Editores, Madrid

 


Photo credits

Albertina Museum, Vienna

Archivio di Stato, Florence

Borghese Gallery, Rome

Giunti Editore Historical Archive, Florence

Biblioteca Municipale “A. Panizzi”, Reggio Emilia

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence

EDITECH, Florence

Fondation Custodia, Paris

Giorgio Geddes da Filicaia, Florence

Simon Hazelgrove, London

Renato Idra, Florence

Kalpa Group

Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

MicroFoto srl, Florence

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Gianni Miglietta, Florence

Musei Comunali di Rimini

The National Gallery, London

Antonio Quattrone, Florence

Rabatti & Domingie Photography, Florence

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris
     © Daniel Arnaudet
      © Jean-Gilles Berizzi
     © Gérard Blot
     © Elsa Lambert
     © Thierry Le Mage
     © Hervé Lewandowski/Thierry Le Mage
     © Elisabeth Ravaud

Jean-Michel Routier Photographe, Paris

The Royal Collection © 2006, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Soprintendenza Archeologica per la Toscana, Gabinetto Fotografico

Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale Fiorentino, Gabinetto Fotografico

Studio Lourmel, Paris

   
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