Leonardo, Architecture, and Drawing: Columbia Early Modern Architecture Workshop

April 21, 2023
New York
United States

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
2–4pm, Friday, 21 April 2023

LECTURE AND BOOK PRESENTATION
Sabine Frommel
Director of Studies, Histoire de l’art de la Renaissance, École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL
ROUNDTABLE
Carmen Bambach
Marica F. and Jan T. Vilcek Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Francesco Benelli
Associate Professor, Dipartimento delle Arti, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Michael J. Waters
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

As this workshop will take place in the study room at Avery Library to give participants the opportunity to examine and discuss the architectural drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and his contemporaries using facsimiles, space is limited. If you would like to attend, please register here.

More information can be found here.

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