Please Note: Summer 2020 Course Registration Opens Online on Monday, May 11th at 8AM

Leonardo continues to fascinate and provoke, his myriad activities still studied by experts in a wide variety of fields. New discoveries are continually being made about his engineering ideas, his drawings and manuscripts, the provenance of his paintings, and his life and opinions. This seminar will examine Leonardo’s emergence in the context of the ongoing Renaissance in Florence and will follow his life through his movements between Florence, Milan, Venice, and Rome to his eventual residence at Amboise. We will study his anatomical drawings, his great paintings, his philosophical and theoretical speculations, his detailed engineering diagrams, his self-probing psychological analyses, and his futuristic inventions. Above all we will reconsider the current critical estimation of his paintings and their place in our conception of what art is. Class sessions will be a combination of lecture and wide-ranging discussion.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions:

• All Summer 2020 courses will be ONLINE ONLY.
• Courses will be delivered online via the Zoom video conferencing platform. All courses will be password protected and only available to enrolled students.
• All class sessions will be recorded and made available to enrolled students for a limited time to assist those who may not be able to attend the live class times.
• Enrolled students may withdraw from a course and receive a full tuitionrefund if the request is received before the second class session. (Our normal refund processing fee of 15% will be waived).
• The Humanities Seminars Program reserves the right to cancel any seminar that fails to meet registration minimums. If a course is canceled all students enrolled in the canceled course will receive a full refund.
• Summer registration will open on Monday, May 11 at 8 AM (AZ Time)