Alessandra Gardin
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From September 13 until December 19 2019 at the Complex of Santa Maria Novella in Florence the exhibition The Botany of Leonardo.A vision of science bridging art and nature”, Drawing from Da Vinci in an authentic and yet contemporary way also means trying to define a new way of thinking that considers the events in Florence starting from the beginning of the 15th Century and makes them relevant today. A period in which, under the patronage of the Medici, alchemy and Neoplatonic thought embraced and nurtured the arts, technology and science The exhibition outlines the philosophical and technological context of the time in which Leonardo Da Vinci lived in order to explore his study of form and the processes of the Plant world in greater depth. Through his eyes as a “systemic” thinker, the connections between art, science and nature, as well as the relationships between different spheres of knowledge, are revealed.