A dodecahedron in Piazza della Signoria anticipates exhibition dedicated to Leonardo and botany

OnFriday, June 14, 2019, at 6 p.m., Leonardo’s Dodecahedron, an installation that will be placed in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, will be unveiled ahead of the major exhibition La Botanica di Leonardo. For a New Science between Art and Nature, which will be set up from September 13, 2019 in the Tuscan capital.

A large dodecahedron inside which is enclosed a mulberry tree. The dodecahedron and the mulberry tree will be precisely the symbols of the exhibition that will be held in the Complex of Santa Maria Novella until December 15, 2019.

For the ancient Greeks and Renaissance Neoplatonists, the dodecahedron represented the entire universe, while four other regular figures represented the four elements: earth (hexahedron), air (octahedron), water (icosahedron) and fire (tetrahedron).

The mulberry tree, on the other hand, is one of Leonardo’s most beloved plants, found in the Sala delle Asse in Milan’s Castello Sforzesco. This plant presence, evocative of the great Milanese decoration, echoes Leonardo’s wisdom as a great botanist and scholar of nature.

The exhibition Leonardo’s Botany. For a New Science between Art and Nature will present the master’s studies, insights and investigations into the forms and processes of the plant world and the living system in general, highlighting how rich his thought is in its implications for contemporary times as well.

The conception and development of the project has been entrusted to Stefano Mancuso, one of the world’s foremost authorities in the field of plant neurobiology; Fritjof Capra, physicist and systems theorist founder and director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California; and Valentino Mercati, founder and president of Aboca.

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A dodecahedron in Piazza della Signoria anticipates exhibition dedicated to Leonardo and botany

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