The exhibition

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience …”

… used to think Leonardo da Vinci. The experience was,, in fact, the dominant motif of his thoughts, making him the first true Renaissance Man and capable of marrying, in a wonderful way, the Arts and the Scientific fields. His exceptional thirst for knowledge and his boundless curiosity for every aspect of reality led him to study, investigate, and experiment practically every sector of human knowledge, leaving important and unrepeatable contributions that often foreshadowed many inventions and discoveries that were recognized much later in history.

During the laborious and incessant research there was an aspiration and a goal: to tell the story of a man who, thanks to his ambition and profound ability to observe nature, he assembled a great encyclopedia of universal knowledge, giving importance to his graphics and conceptual representations that were unprecedented during his lifetime. For this reason alone, in the last four years, some exhibitions have been born, each of which consists of about forty physical models dedicated to the themes: flight, war, civil engineering, hydraulics and mechanics, exhibitions that have made appearances in the most important museums in the world including: the Art Center of Vienna, the Art Center in Berlin, the Memorial War Museum in Auckland, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and the Memorial War Museum of Korea in Seoul.

The construction of the machines is entirely done by hand, with particular attention to the finishings and use of the materials that were from that era ie: wood, cotton, brass, iron and rope. Only the technical drawings are developed by a computer to calculate the exact proportions of the models and their mechanisms to precision. The handmade machines are interactive and can be used by the public, allowing one to interact with the multifaceted and pragmatic works of a man, shattering the myth that genius is far from our grasp, and allowing us to experience this through the practical and intelligent work of Leonardo’s inventions in the present .