Alessandro Vezzosi

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Alessandro Vezzosi (* 1950 in Vinci ) is an Italian art critic, author of non-fiction books and exhibition curator . He is the founder of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci in Vinci. Vezzosi is Accademico Ordinario of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.

His publications focus on the work of Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance and Italian garden art. He is the author of numerous journal articles and conference contributions as well as essays and contributions in compilations and exhibition catalogs. He has also written essays on architecture, interior design, handicrafts and gardening. On the question of the authorship of La Bella Principessa , he takes the position of Martin Kemp , who considers the drawing to be a work by Leonardo.

Together with the historian Agnese Sabato, an employee of the Museo ideal, he initiated a project to research the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci. In 2018 the first volume of his research on the descendants of Leonardo's father and Leonardo's uncle was published by an Italian publisher. The company is viewed with skepticism by experts.

Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci

Tower of the Castello dei Conti Giudi in Vinci

Vezzosi founded the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci in 1993, located in the Castello dei Conti Guidi in Vinci, which has housed the Museo Leonardiano di Vinci since 1953. Vezzosi's Ideal Museum includes the Garden of Leonardo and of Utopia and the Archivio Leonardismi . In 2010 the museum was closed for restoration and did not reopen until April 12, 2019.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1978: Vezzosi was curator of the 6th Biennale Internazionale della Grafica d'Arte in Florence.
  • 1986: Il giardino d'Europa. Pratolino come modello nella cultura europea . Catalogo della mostra, Firenze-Pratolino, 1986. (Natura & cultura).
  • 1991: Leonardo da Vinci. Attualità e mito ; actuality és mítosz; Kiállítás az Országos Széchényi Könyvtárban, 1991, Budapest, Budavári Palota1. Budapest Országos Széchényi Könyvtár. Exhibition catalog. OCLC 499369452 . (Italian, Hungarian)

Fonts (selection)

  • Leonardo da Vinci. Arte e scienza dell 'universo . Electa / Gallimard, Milano 1996, ISBN 88-445-0083-3 .
  • Leonardo da Vinci. The paintings. Prestel, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7913-8496-2 .
  • With Agnese Sabato: Il DNA di Leonardo. Volume 1: Le origini. Angelo Pontecorboli editore, Firenze 2018, ISBN 978-88-99695-95-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, cerimonia di apertura dell'Anno Accademico, 2016 , accessed on May 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ Italian museum looks to unlock da Vinci hair mystery Reuters.com, May 6, 2019, accessed May 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ Leonardo vive, dopo 9 anni riapre il Museo Ideale. Novità sul vino delle terre del Genio , accessed on May 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Catalog , accessed on May 27, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Vezzosi, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian art critic, author of non-fiction books and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Vinci (Tuscany)