The great Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most prolific and polyhedric figures in Western history: he was an architect, set designer, engineer, inventor, painter, sculptor, treatise writer, anatomist...

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death, the Santa Maria Novella Museum in Florence inaugurated “Leonardo’s Botany. A vision of science bridging art and nature”, an exhibition that deepens its research on vegetal forms and structures, highlighting an original synthesis between art and nature.

One of the lesser known aspects of the Master will be literally illuminated by the lighting designer Fulvio Balteschi, who has collaborated with the Treviso-based Linea Light Group to interpret the themes of the exhibition and animate the installation curated by the Guicciardini & Magni studio.

The basic idea of the lighting design is to represent the vitality of a forest, with dynamic elements to enhance the environment and static fixtures with narrow beams of light to show off the works on display.

Among the various Linea Light Group devices that have been adopted, the Navata projectors allow the creation of light waves by increasing or decreasing the intensity and power, managed by a DALI system. Strips embedded in the structure and Periskop lights illuminate the most important symbolic and scenic element of the exhibition: Vitruvian Man.

The exhibition promoted by the City of Florence, produced and conceived by Aboca with the scientific coordination of MUS.E., will be open until December 15, 2019.