Leonardo da Vinci: A 'Second Nature in the World'

A talk by Martin Kemp FBA, Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Trinity College, University of Oxford. Sunday 26th February at 2pm in the Waterhall. Tickets are £6 per person and £4 for Art Fund members In this talk we will be looking at how Leonardo's art and science can both be understood as a remaking of nature on the basis of deep understanding of causes and effects. In the light of this, we will be able to see how the Mona Lisa and the flying machine are the same kind of thing. The drawings in the exhibition will provide particular points of reference.

Martin Kemp FBA is Emeritus Professor in the History of Art at Trinity College, University of Oxford. He was trained in Natural Sciences and Art History at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute, London. For more than 25 years he held posts at universities in Scotland, America and Canada. He has written, broadcast and curated exhibitions on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day and has written a column in Nature for almost 15 years. Increasingly, he has focused on issues of visualisation, modelling and representation.