Through the Eyes of da Vinci

Meet the Renaissance artist who foresaw the future.

Dangling from his blocak & tackle or staging his Last Supper painting, Leonardo draws his audience into his fertile imagination, wit, and vision (WAY ahead of his time) using slides, monologue and theatrics, demonstrations and audience-participatory re-enactments.

In this spell-binding performance, Leonardo unfolds his life, his times, and his mindset. Both scientist and artist, Leonardo's intense curiosity in his dogged pursuit of knowledge enabled him to create art with the discipline, tools and skills of the mathematical scientist and to create hypothesis-driven leaping science with the artist's skill of observation and with the artist's primary tool – the metaphor.

Highly inter-disciplinary, relevant to diverse curricular areas in melding the sciences and the arts, this production culturally depicts the Italian Renaissance, keystone of Western civilization. The performance is designed to motivate audiences to hone their aesthetic and scientific perceptions, to the savor the interaction of the arts and sciences, to pursue science and art with curiosity and scholarly integrity, and to cultivate the character traits of genius, having rubbed shoulders with a person of such inventiveness, self-determination, and keen awareness.

Memorable quotations

Michelangelo Buonnaroti

Auguste Rodin

Vincent Van Gogh

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Claude Monet