A lecture by Filippo Camerota
The astonishing development and in both art and science in Florence during the three centuries from 1400 is celebrated by the deliberate placement of the monumental 18th century tombs of Michelangelo and Galileo in the Basilica di Santa Croce - opposed as if to mirror their towering achievements. Indeed the coincidence of the date of Michelangelo's death with that of Galileo's birth, 18 February 1564, allows for a glorification of the latter as the scientific reincarnation of the great genius of the arts.
Filippo Camerota, the Scientific Director of the Museo Galileo, explores how the patronage of the Medic family created the conditions for this fruitful dialogue between the arts and the sciences.
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This lecture is sponsored by Jonathan Mandlebaum