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The Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition in Rome welcomes you with a unique experience: a journey of sensations and knowledge that reveals the surprising relevance of the Renaissance Genius today. Here you can admire authentic machines reconstructed from Leonardo’s codices and immerse yourself in a world where art, science, and innovation meet.
An incredible effort of research and construction has brought Leonardo’s machines to life. These are not mere models, but fully functional, large-scale wooden machines, crafted with care using special techniques that combine modern technological precision with artisanal skill.
At the Museum, you can not only admire but also operate Leonardo’s machines, discovering firsthand how they work. The experience is enhanced by 7 thematic showcases exploring his studies of botany, anatomy, architecture, theatrical machines, and more, each equipped with tablets featuring 3D reconstructions and video explanations.
The museum journey also allows you to discover, in the undergrounds, the tomb of Aulus Irtius, a lieutenant of Caesar who fell in 43 B.C., visible thanks to the exhibition and submerged in the waters of the ancient Euripus canal
A genius man and universal talent of italian Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci embodied the universality spirit of his age, leading it in extremely various art’s and knowledge fields. He was a painter, a carver, architect, engineer, mathematician, anatomist, musician and inventor, probably is the most know among all every time culture‘s main characters.
Constantly defined as The Universal Genius for his lively curiosity and the notional mind, which makes him range through every field of knowledge at his time: from inventions and creation of various machines to architecture, botany, physiology, physics, philosophy, literature, painting and sculpture. Using all the devices at Leonardo’s disposal, integrating his own ability, he dedicated his life and his works in inquiring to reality.
Through the codes, writings and drawings formed as notes he wrote all along his life, Leonardo give life to a series of peerless richness both adequacy order by a universal and sublime aim: to understand.
In addition to seeing the works and interactive machines on display, visitors will be able to better understand how they work, thanks to the use of a system of virtual images reproduced through nine holograms structured to present his studies on flight, war, engineering and painting.
There are also 3 of his most famous paintings applying a certain optical law of physics. It creates an extraordinary effect. Realistic images appear in the glass showcaes giving the idea that the object is physically present in 3D.
It also shows how a painting was executed right before your eyes. The projection is so realistic and precise thanks to the machines animation. They are presented as “Da Vinci” in a new dimension. The visitor journeys back to the Great Genious Leonardo…
7 showcases with faithful reproductions of some codices and interactive tablets on many other subjects (cooking, mathematics, anatomy, botany, architecture, theatre).
In the last room underground in this marvellous building there is a hidden treasure made visible thanks to this exhibition.
It is the tomb of Aulo Irzio, the Lieutenant of Caesare killed in the Battle of Modena 43 BC.
The tomb was discovered in 1938 and is submerged in the waters of Euripus, the channel that flows through Campo Marzio and drains into the River Tiber.
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