We’re pleased to invite the general public to the Cinquecento finale, featuring guest speakers, music, dance, storytelling, and more in one original live event!

What is Cinquecento?

For the past year 杏吧原创 University has celebrated the life and legacy of Leonardo da Vinci with Cinquecento, a year-long series of events that looked at da Vinci鈥檚 work with fresh eyes. In Italian, 鈥淐inquecento鈥� means 500 and, for this event series, refers to the 500 years since his passing.

During Cinquecento, 杏吧原创鈥檚 faculties have come together to explore da Vinci鈥檚 interdisciplinary innovations and provided a comprehensive analysis of the life and work of one of history鈥檚 most fascinating people.

In total, 杏吧原创’s Leonardo 2019 committee, chaired by Prof. Angelo Mingarelli of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, organized 16 da Vinci-themed events and hosted world-renowned experts including Martin Kemp, Elizabeth Abbott, Leslie Geddes, Domenico Laurenza, Ross King, and several others.

Our festivities even included an event that saw a talented chalk artist recreating one of Leonardo’s masterpieces on the floor of the University Centre!

Sadly, 2019 is coming to an end, but we still have one more opportunity to celebrate with da Vinci fans far and wide. We invite the public to join us for one last hurrah at the 杏吧原创 Dominion-Chalmers Centre on Thursday, Dec. 12. You won’t want to miss this event!

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Check out the following FIVE free, public Cinquecento and Leonardo da Vinci-themed events taking place at 杏吧原创 during the month of November.

Monday, Nov. 4: Performing Arts

SmarTalk Leonardo da Vinci
By Gruppo Jobel, an international organization founded in Rome in 1998

Jobel鈥檚 mission is to communicate cultural, technical, scientific, and commercial content through performing arts, visual arts and new technologies. For the first time in Canada, on the occasion of the 2019 Italian Language Week in the World, Leonardo鈥檚 captivating and yet mysterious personality will be told through the fusion of several disciplines: singing, dancing, storytelling and academic content. Lorenzo Cognatti, Jobel鈥檚 founder and creative director, wanted to paint Leonardo鈥檚 complex personality, showing him also as a woman. The event will be in English with sections in Italian to hear the Leonardesque language in its original form. Among the guest speakers is 杏吧原创 Prof. Angelo Mingarelli and three performers from Ottawa.

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Wednesday, Nov. 13: Science Caf茅

Leonardo鈥檚 Excursions into Mathematics
By Cinquecento Chair and 杏吧原创 Mathematics and Statistics Prof. Angelo Mingarelli

In this presentation, Prof. Angelo Mingarelli will explore Leonardo da Vinci鈥檚 (1452-1519) various excursions into the realm of mathematics (arithmetic and geometry and their applications). He will examine how da Vinci spent close to 20 years trying to 鈥渟quare the circle鈥� and solve such other unsolvable problems that, of course, he didn鈥檛 know were unsolvable at the time.

Friday, Nov. 15: Cinquecento Lecture

The Alchemy of Geniuses: Leonardo and Other Polymaths of the Italian Renaissance
By Cristina Perissinotto, Associate Professor of Italian Studies & Director of the Italian Program, University of Ottawa

Why did the Italian Renaissance create so much beauty, and so many geniuses and polymaths? In this talk, Perissinotto shall encounter renowned geniuses, such as Leonardo da Vinci, as well as other Renaissance polymaths. She will attempt to find answers to the question above: why the preponderance of beauty in Renaissance art and cities, who were some of the polymaths of the Italian Renaissance, and why did this historical period produce so many?

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Thursday, Nov. 21: Faculty of Science Herzberg Lecture 2019

Leonardo鈥檚 Salvator Mundi: The Story and the Research
By Martin Kemp, Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University

Things are rarely straightforward with Leonardo. Myths proliferate. His rediscovered Salvator, revealed to the public for the first time in 2011, has already been engulfed by stories that have little to do with the picture itself. This lecture will provide an accurate account of its discovery, provenance, exhibition, reception and sale (for $450 million!), and will look at all aspects of the image in the contexts of Leonardo鈥檚 career, showing how it embodies his unique fusion of science, imagination, psychology and theology. It is this fusion that precludes its attribution to anyone other than Leonardo himself.

Monday, Nov. 25: Cinquecento Lecture

Anatomy, Geology and Their Influence on Leonardo鈥檚 Art
By Domenico Laurenza, a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florence

Laurenza will discuss how and why an artist turned into an anatomist and, at the same time, studied the earth like a scientist. He will dig deeper into what Leonardo鈥檚 scientific studies consisted of in these two fields, in which perhaps, as a scientist, he achieved the best results. These studies were the connections with his artistic work through the representation of the human figure and landscape, furthering the connections with his scientific research between the study of the human body or microcosm, and the study of the body of the earth or macrocosm. The lecture will try to provide an answer to these questions and will be an occasion of synthesis between the researches dedicated by Laurenza to Leonardo鈥檚 anatomical studies and, more recently, Leonardo鈥檚 geological work. In particular, with regard to this last field, the lecture will anticipate new evidences emerged during the preparation of the new edition of Leonardo鈥檚 Codex Leicester, currently in print (Oxford University Press).

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Join the Dante Alighieri Society of Ottawa in celebrating Leonardo da Vinci 500th anniversary with prof. Angelo Mingarelli from 杏吧原创 University presenting “Leonardo, il Fiorentino” [Leonardo, from Florence] – The lecture will be in English and is hosted by the NCIC at the Italian Canadian Historical Centre [1026 Baseline Road] –

Free entry and free parking

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