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Episode 5: Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The History of the Future, Leonardo da Vinci

Juliet Gardiner looks at Renaissance visionary and polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

Juliet Gardiner asks how the future looked for Leonardo da Vinci, whose designs prefigured the modern tank and helicopter. From September 2012.

Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a look at the designs of Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci. Juliet views his designs for warfare which seem to prefigure the modern tank and helicopter, and tries to understand how the culture of 15th century Florence with its political and religious turmoil as well as artistic flowering spoke to Leonardo's vision of the future. Many of Leonardo's inventions were astonishingly ahead of their time, but he is also a man firmly of his time, a time in which God, and the Revelation of the judgement of the Apocalypse depicted on the roof of the Baptistry would determine the end times for all. Juliet speaks to Evelyn Welch and Martin Kemp.

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