Understand what a visionary Leonardo da Vinci was bringing his works to life. This is the new bet of Google Arts & Culture, the online museum of the search giant that offers a new interactive experience around the Renaissance artist,Inside a genius mindin French).
It took many years to launch such an ambitious and vast project on the artist that was Leonardo da Vinci. Some 28 institutions from around the world (museums, cultural funds, libraries…) have contributed to the constitution of this enormous retrospective that highlights both their well-known inventions (the flying machine, the Mona Lisa) and the creations and ideas shown to the public. public for the first time. This platform called Decode Da Vinci He gives special importance to seven of his twenty written codices, that is, more than 1,300 pages of hand drawings and available annotations in which Da Vinci settled his many ideas.
On a journey through the mind of Leonardo da Vinci
Thus we find the Codex Atlanticus, usually kept in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan and recently digitized, in which he will talk about his work on his dream of flying, his reflections on Florentine art, and which also houses his curriculum sent to the Duke of Milan. .for the position of military engineer. In the Arundel Codex, held by the British Library, until his death, he had also noted some scientific and artistic ideas, but also comments on his daily life and his “refreshing soup”.
All these documents and many more are now accessible in the form of an immersion into the mind of the genius inventor for “an interactive visual journey” where navigation follows everyone’s curiosity. Because Google also used his artificial intelligence to model his military, hydraulic or mechanical inventions in 3D, some of which never saw the light of day during his lifetime. Google Arts & Culture brings them to life and brings them to life, leaning in particular on the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, which has a collection of 170 machines designed by da Vinci.
However, the platform is not only interested in the inventor, but also in the artist by bringing together for the first time his works that are usually kept in various museums around the world, from the Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci (Washington National Gallery of Art) to the Mona Lisa (Louvre Museum), through her famous self-portrait at age 65. And each work is offered in high resolution to immerse yourself in the heart of the painting, in its details where clues hidden by the author sometimes slip through.
become a genius
If the online exhibition can be visited like a museum to quench the thirst for knowledge about the Italian genius with great detail in each item offered and anecdotes, Google has also brought a playful dimension to the whole with Stickies Da Vinci. Thus, it is possible to create your own invention by assembling pieces from Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches with the help of internal AI imaging tools.
A Google experience would not be complete without your realistic visit. The significant places in da Vinci’s life are not forgotten. Walks in Google Street View are on the menu at the castle of Amboise (Loire), at the castle of the Sforza (Milan) and obviously in Vinci where he was born.
Source: BFM TV
