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8 09, 2024

Leonardo and the science of scent (Tim Brinkhof, Artnet)

By |2024-09-08T17:55:00-04:00September 8th, 2024|Academia, Arts, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Medicine, News, painting, science|0 Comments

Leonardo and the science of scent: a recent exhibit explores da Vinci's fascination with smell. From the article: Touted as a multi-sensory, olfactory experience, the exhibition shows that Leonardo got interested in perfumes after comparing the machinations of smell to those of sight and hearing. He collected commercially available perfumes, many of them made [...]

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