The Leonardo da Vinci Society

Annual Lecture 2005

Professor Claire Farago

(University of Colorado at Boulder)

will speak on

“Leonardo’s Trattato della Pittura in its cultural context”

on Friday 20 May 2005, at 6.00 pm

in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre,

Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House

The abridging of the text of the Trattato and the redecoration of the Sala del Cinquecento under Vasari must have been simultaneous or nearly so, Professor Farago explains. This raises new questions about the effacing or erasing of Leonardo’s conceptual approach to painting.