The Emirates Palace hotel, Abu Dhabi, has opened an exhibition dedicated to the famous Italian painter and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci that will display 40 full scale models of his most famous inventions.
The show, entitled “Leonardo Da Vinci: The Genius and his Inventions”, will run until July 5 and is being held in collaboration with Genius Srl, owned by the Italian benefactor Augusto Biagi, and is grouped into four sections: air, water, earth and fire, reports Gulf News.
Italian ambassador to the UAE Giorgio Starace told the paper: “The expo focuses on Da Vinci’s contribution to technology and it shows the geniality of this world’s famous man who was not just a painter and sculptor but also an inventor.”
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“A further section is dedicated to the mechanical elements, which acts as the true interactive part of the exhibition, allowing visitors to literally animate the machines, putting them in motion, thus understanding the underlying principles of physics and mechanics which Da Vinci discovered and applied at his times,” added Starace.
One of Da Vinci’s most famous creations was an imagined flying machine, created five centuries before the Wright Brother’s first historic flights in the early 1900s.
The exhibition has already been touring Austria, Germany and Turkey with more than 8,000 visitors visiting the displays each month.
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