The Immersive Exhibition
until October 5 in Florence
Da Vinci Experience
The Exhibition
From June 9, 2025 to October 5, 2025, Da Vinci Experience returns — an immersive journey through the life and works of Leonardo at the Cattedrale dell’Immagine in Florence.
Una sorprendente mostra immersiva dedicata al genio toscano che trasporterà gli spettatori alla scoperta dell’artista e dello scienziato, dell’ingegnere e dell’anatomista. Un personaggio dalle mille sfaccettature che ha cambiato il
corso della storia.
A remarkable immersive exhibition dedicated to the Tuscan genius, which will transport visitors into the discovery of the artist and the scientist, the engineer and the anatomist. A multifaceted figure who changed the course of history.
Da Vinci VR Experience
With Da Vinci VR Experience, you can interact with Leonardo’s great engineering inventions. Thanks to an application specifically developed for Da Vinci Experience, the concept of immersion opens up new possibilities.
Simply by wearing VR headsets, you will have the opportunity to enter the engineering work of the most visionary figure of the Renaissance. You will be able to experience projects that Leonardo himself never saw realized: going into battle while controlling a tank, experimenting with flight through the aerial screw, and navigating a river while steering a paddle boat.
Leonardo’s Machines
The models of Leonardo’s machines, both full-scale and scaled, are meticulously reproduced based on Leonardo da Vinci’s original designs.
Scribble2Art
The first installation introduces Scribble2Art, a platform already adopted in numerous artistic and museum contexts, capable of bringing audiences closer to art through the act of creation. In this special edition, inspired by Leonardo’s genius, visitors are invited to create simple sketches on a digital interface. Thanks to a dedicated AI pipeline, these sketches are transformed into original Leonardesque drawings, evoking the unmistakable style of the Master.
An experience that not only pays tribute to Leonardo’s inventive spirit, but also gives visitors an active and personal role in interpreting his genius.
Scribble2Art represents a new and inclusive way to engage with cultural heritage, creating a direct bridge between contemporary creativity and Renaissance vision.
Technology and Culture, Without Mediation
Da Vinci Experience is not only a celebration of Leonardo’s work, but an experiential laboratory where contemporary languages serve memory, ingenuity, and beauty.
Stride and Crossmedia Group share the belief that technology should disappear the moment it is used, leaving space for interaction, wonder, and participation.
This exhibition is an invitation to rediscover Leonardo not only as a genius of the past, but as an endless source of inspiration for the future.
Gallery
Leonardo Da Vinci
(Anchiano, April 15, 1452 – Amboise, May 2, 1519)
Recognized as the greatest mind of the Renaissance, Leonardo was a painter, sculptor, draftsman, architect, philosopher, poet, mathematician, anatomist, botanist, musician, civil and military engineer, urban planner, and scientist.
The illegitimate son and firstborn of the notary Ser Piero da Vinci, he received a rather irregular and fragmented education, guided by his grandfather and paternal uncle. He learned to write with his left hand and in reverse, that is, in mirror writing. According to Vasari, in his studies the young Leonardo “began many things […] and then abandoned them,” while his interest in “drawing and sculpting reliefs, as things that appealed to his imagination more than any other” became increasingly evident. He was then directed toward an artistic career in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. From that moment on, his life changed.
Students of Verrocchio also included Sandro Botticelli, Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and Lorenzo di Credi. The workshop was a place of training across multiple artistic disciplines: painting, various sculptural techniques (stone carving, lost-wax casting, and wood carving), as well as the so-called minor arts.
It was the gateway that opened the path Leonardo would follow for the rest of his life. From painting, in fact, all his other activities would develop. For Leonardo, painting was a science, capable of representing “to the eye with greater truth and certainty the works of nature.”
The study of nature is the driving force behind every aspect of Leonardo’s work. His curiosity about the laws governing nature led him to depict in great detail the flowers in the meadow of his Annunciation (1472–1475), as well as to develop a new perspective technique, the so-called “aerial perspective,” which takes atmospheric phenomena into account.
The same curiosity pushed him to analyze the dynamics of flying animals, filling pages with drawings in the Codex on the Flight of Birds (1505–1506), and to dissect human cadavers in order to conduct studies in anatomy and the behavior of hydraulic flows.
Leonardo’s genius was quickly recognized and widely sought after. The Duke of Milan welcomed him to his court, asking him to design new weapons for military campaigns; the Gonfaloniere of the Florentine Republic, Pier Soderini, commissioned him to decorate the largest hall of Palazzo Vecchio; Cardinal Giuliano de’ Medici offered him a pension to pursue his scientific research in Rome; and in 1517, the King of France invited him to join his court, where he could work in peace on his projects.
Desired by the most powerful figures of his time, Leonardo traveled across Europe, offering his services and securing the resources needed to carry forward his research independently.
Fewer than twenty paintings are recognized today as original works by Leonardo, while 23 original codices by the Master have survived, totaling 3,311 autograph pages.
Ambito dai potenti dell’epoca, Leonardo viaggia per tutta Europa e, offrendo i propri servigi, ottiene i finanziamenti necessari per portare avanti liberamente le sue ricerche. A noi sono arrivati meno di venti dipinti riconosciuti
come originali di Leonardo, mentre siamo in possesso di 23 codici originali del Maestro, per un totale di 3311 pagine autografe.
