Leonardo defines music as a way to draw what is not visible to the eye: “the figuration of invisible things”, he writes.
But more generally, all his art is a way to show what escapes the gaze: states of mind, internal anatomy, certain minute details of nature, certain almost imperceptible shadows.
The expression, then, is particularly fitting also for another giant of his time: Michelangelo.
Buonarroti is never satisfied with representing reality as it is. In all his works, from the Vatican Pietà to the Last Judgement, he does not represent bodies, but souls in the form of a body.
Mercadini, with this conference-show, takes us on a sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious journey through the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo.
Two rival geniuses in the dark heart of the Renaissance.
