Presentation by Harvard PhD and Art History Professor, Randi Klebanoff.

Abstract:

While we have been enthusiastic about claiming Leonardo as our own – a modern secular scientist and new kind of artistic genius – I propose to look at Leonardo within the context of the theocentric understanding of the cosmos that was his contemporary context. I will look at how his highly original depictions of the divine related to fifteenth-century artistic efforts in imaging God¹s paradoxical immanence and transcendence in the world and to theological ideas of nature, cognition, and the divine.