The Art and Heart of Leonardo - an exhibition
Thu 5 May 2022 - Mon 13 June 2022
Clare Hall
Dissecting the hearts of oxen and working with intuition, Leonardo described, with astonishing precision, the anatomy and workings of the heart long before William Harvey posited the circulation of the blood. Leonardo was a profound lateral thinker and applied his ideas in functional anatomy across species. This allows us to draw a parallelism between his analysis of birds' wings and photographs of birds in flight taken by Owen Burke, who has kindly lent these to the exhibition.
As an artist fascinated by both art and science, Leonardo was able to see things that many could not. This has inspired the investigative and imaginative contemporary drawings made by students of the Academia in Venice, while studying an innovative course on ‘artistic anatomy’, conceived by Professor Mauro Zocchetta. We are grateful to the Academia for the loan of some of these drawings. It is hoped that this broader approach to Leonardo and his legacy will result in an exhibition that invites engagement at many levels of academic interest.
We are especially grateful to co-curator Francis Wells, a cardiac surgeon at the Royal Papworth Hospital, who is also the author of a scholarly book titled The Heart of Leonardo, as well as an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall. His book demonstrates the accuracy of Leonardo’s observation and physiological reasoning. Leonardo himself never published his anatomical knowledge, as he intended to do, and it can therefore be regarded as another of his great unfinished projects. Only in the twentieth century did his anatomical achievement begin to receive public recognition.
Previous versions of this exhibition have been shown abroad. It is very appropriate that Clare Hall, a forward-looking college, should be the first place to show it in England. We are extremely grateful to Francis Wells for loaning us facsimiles in his possession, for the time and attention he has given to their presentation, and, above all, for all the insights he offers into Leonardo’s work. Such generosity will entice and reward many visitors to this exhibition.
Cost: Free
Enquiries and booking
No need to book.
Enquiries: Clare Hall Website Email: events@clarehall.cam.ac.uk
Timing
In person
9:00am-5:00pm daily , for 40 sessions starting Thursday 5 May 2022
All times
Thu 5 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 6 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 7 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 8 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Mon 9 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Tue 10 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 11 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 12 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 13 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 14 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 15 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Mon 16 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Tue 17 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 18 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 19 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 20 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 21 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 22 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Mon 23 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Tue 24 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 25 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 26 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 27 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 28 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 29 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Mon 30 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Tue 31 May 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 1 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 2 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 3 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 4 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 5 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Mon 6 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Tue 7 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 8 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 9 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 10 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 11 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 12 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Mon 13 June 2022 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
Venue
Address: | Clare Hall Herschel Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 9AL United Kingdom |
Email: | events@clarehall.cam.ac.uk |