Italia Sorrento 7 Museum of Italian pride

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Sorrento
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Museum of Italian pride
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Convento di San Francesco
Piazza Tasso
Stazione
Corso Italia
Duomo
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The interactive exhibition Leonardo da Vinci
lOrgoglio Italiano 
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The Convent of the Church of San Francesco
dAssisi in Sorrento hosts the exhibition Leonardo
da Vinci lOrgoglio Italiano until 5 November
2018. A travelling art project, unique in its
kind, which has visited Rome, Milan, Florence,
Matera, Salerno, Sydney, Abu Dhabi and Wenzhou in
China. Based on the original designs of Leonardo
da Vinci (1452-1519), the works on display are
faithful reproductions created by artisan Mario
Paolucci, functional and full-sized. Visitors are
encouraged to try, in first person, some of the
machines on display and explore approximately 70
works through multimedia installations and films
from the repertoire of National Geographic
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During his lifetime, Leonardo was a scientist,
painter, inventor, architect, musician, sculptor
and set designer. The exhibition offers an
opportunity to explore the multifaceted Master
from Florence, as well as visit the convent in
Piazza Gargiulo in one of Sorrentos oldest and
most beautiful churches, which, thanks to
remarkable renovations, is now on its way to
becoming a point of reference for culture on the
Sorrentine Peninsula. It is important to note, as
well, that in 2019, there will be official
celebrations throughout Europe to mark the 500th
Anniversary of the artists death
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The Vitruvian Man (Italian Le proporzioni del
corpo umano secondo Vitruvio), which is
trans-lated to "The proportions of the human body
according to Vitruvius"), is a drawing by Leonardo
da Vinci around 1490
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Leonardo studied the proportions of the human
body and its commensurability with perfect
geometric shapes (circle and square). These are
scientific and artistic analysis (correctly
representing the human figure and designing
architectures based on the proportions of the
human body). The drawing shows the series of
proportional relationships of the human body, and
also the relationship of the human body with the
circle and the square, according to the solution
handed down by the roman architect Vitruvius,
which Leonardo proposes again
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With this machine Leonardo proposed to experiment
with range of the thrust of the wing. Operating
as a lever, the device transmits the force
exerted by the man represented in the drawing
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Water Skis, Leonardo da Vinci Modo di Camminare
Sull'AcquaCodex Atlanticus F.26.r. It is well
known that Leonardo was not the first man who
tried to walk on water. He was fascinated by the
element and studied many mechanisms to help men
dominate water.In this drawing he gind enormous
skis which supposedly enabled one to walk on the
water
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All the machines are functional and can be
touched and tested, "to allow an intense sensory
perceptive experience through which to activate
emotional and cognitive mechanisms."
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Octagonal mirror room, a 'invention' by Leonardo
da Vinci
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Among the most common motion transmission systems
in the mechanics of Leonardo there is the
combination of the toothed wheel lantern spool,
nor without the warning, in some notes, or the
possibility of breakages caused by excessive
weights or adverse movements
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The boat is propelled by using two pedals, which
are linked by a belt to a reciprocating-motion
device. A mechanism transforms the reciprocating
motion into continuous rotary motion in order to
turn the paddles
Paddle Boat
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Leonardo invented the ball bearing between the
years 1498-1500. He designed it to lower the
friction between two plates that would be in
contact in his other famous design for the
Helicopter. His helicopter would never have flown
as humans to do not have anywhere near the power
to weight ratio necessary to lift themselves
against the force of gravity this is the reason
why birds have such large breasts), their power
to weight ratio far exceeds that of humans.
Although the helicopter design went down like a
lead balloon, the ball bearing can be found in
any machine that has rotary motion
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This bearing is used to reduce the friction of a
vertical force such as that of a drive shaft and
can therefore be applied to a wide range of
mechanical devices
Vertical ball bearing
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Leonardos invention the cam hammer is another
example of thinking centuries ahead of his time.
This machine would be used extensively several
hundreds of years after his death during the
industrial revolution. They would be powered by
Steam engine and could hammer at up to twenty
times per second. They were used to draw out the
sheet metal for ships and armored machines for
war such as the tanks in world war I
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Removable cannon
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Dredge
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The giant crossbow
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One thing Leonardo may have understood better
than any of his contemporaries was the
psychological effects of weapons in warfare as
illustrated by his giant crossbow invention. He
understood better than most the psychological
effects that weapons of war could have on the
enemy.  Instilling fear was the main object in
this invention.  The giant crossbow was designed
for pure intimidation.  It measures 27 yards
across and has six wheels to make it mobile.  The
actual bow would be made of a very thin wood as
to achieve maximum flexibility.  This giant
crossbow did not only fling arrows, again
instilling fear was the point, it would fling
large stones. 
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Designed for Duke Sforza, Leonardo da Vincis
revolving bridge could be quickly packed up and
transported for use by armies on the move to pass
over bodies of water
Revolving bridge
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The precursor to the modern tank, Leonardo da
Vinci's armored car invention was capable of
moving in any direction and was equipped with a
large number of weapons. The motion of the car
had to generated by at least six men inside the
car
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The apparatus for winding a yarn on the spool
Catapult-Kit
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Machine Gun
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Reproductions of Leonardos masterpieces and
codes are also on show together with multimedia
videos and film footage about his life.
Renaissance Man Leonardo has been called a genius
and the archetypal Renaissance man his talents
extended far beyond his artistic works. Like many
leaders of Renaissance humanism, he did not see a
divide between science and art. His observations
and inventions were recorded in 13,000 pages of
notes and drawings, including designs for flying
machines (some 400 years before the Wright
brothers first success), plant studies, war
machinery, anatomy and architecture
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The jewel of the exhibition is, without a doubt,
the Mattonella di Leonardo (the Tile of
Leonardo) on display for the first time in
Sorrento. Naturally, it is a reproduction, but it
is highly significant because it is the first
signed work by the Master of the Renaissance,
created in 1471 at the age of 19. The original
tile, 7.9 x 7.9  x 0.5", depicts the face of
Archangel Gabriel and was realised with the
technique of eternal paint (a painting
technique defined by Leonardo himself in his own
treatise) on which the signature is hidden on the
jawbone of the work. The only other known
signature was that of the contract signed by
Leonardo for the creation of the Vergine delle
Rocce in 1483
A small square tile with the profile image of a
beautiful angel has been claimed not only as the
earliest surviving work by Leonardo da Vinci, but
as his own self-portrait as the Archangel Gabriel
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If genuine the tile has survived miraculously
unbroken for more than 500 years, since the
18-year-old artist made it in 1471. There are
secret inscriptions including a sequence of
numbers, and Leonardos signature back to front
his later notebooks are full of his
mirror-writing together making up a coded
message translated as I, Leonardo da Vinci,
born in 1452, represented myself as the Archangel
Gabriel in 1471.
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Madonna Litta - The State Hermitage Museum St
Petersburg
Head of Woman La Scapigliata - Galleria Nazionale
di Parma
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The Lady with an Ermine - Czartoryski Museum,
Cracow
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The Lady with an Ermine - fragment
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St Jerome in the Wilderness 103x75cm (c. 1480)
Musées du Vatican
San Giovanni Battista 
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Virgin of the Rocks (National Gallery London)
Virgin of the Rocks (Louvre)
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The painting, sold 2017, become the most
expensive painting ever sold. At the auction, the
painting was purchased by an unidentified buyer
bidding via telephone after a protracted contest
of nearly 20 minutes at the auction house. The
painting, only recently rediscovered, was the
last da Vinci left in private hands
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Text Internet Pictures Sanda Foisoreanu
Internet Gabriela Cristescu
All  copyrights  belong to their  respective
owners Presentation Sanda Foisoreanu
2018
Sound Surriento D' 'e Nnammurate - Mario
da Vinci Torna a Surriento - Carlo Bergonzi The
Three Tenors (Seoul 2001)