Carleton University’s Faculty of Science will host the 2019 Herzberg Lecture, Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi: The Story and The Research, presented by Martin Kemp, emeritus research professor in the History of Art at Oxford University.
When: Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019 at 7 p.m.
Where: Atrium, Richcraft Building, Carleton
Info: This event is free and open to the public. Registration is available online.
Media are invited to attend the event.
Things are rarely straightforward with Leonardo da Vinci and myths proliferate. His rediscovered masterpiece Salvator Mundi has already been engulfed by stories that have little to do with the painting itself.
This lecture will provide an accurate account of its discovery, provenance, exhibition, reception and its record-breaking sale. Kemp will discuss the painting in the context of da Vinci’s career – demonstrating how it embodies his unique fusion of science, imagination, psychology and theology.
About Martin Kemp
Kemp has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science from the Renaissance to the present day. He speaks on issues of visualization and lateral thinking to a wide range of audiences. Da Vinci has been the subject of his books, including Leonardo. He has published on imagery in the sciences of anatomy, natural history and optics, including The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat.
He has curated a series of exhibitions on da Vinci and other themes, including Spectacular Bodies at the Hayward Gallery in London, Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Seduced: Sex and Art from Antiquity to Now at Barbican Art Gallery in London. He was also guest curator for Circa 1492 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
About the Herzberg Lecture
The Herzberg Lecture is held annually in honour of Gerhard Herzberg, a former chancellor of Carleton University and recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The lectures emphasize the relationship between science and society in order to address an aspect of science which has a pronounced impact on our daily lives.
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