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ÉVÉNEMENT : MUSIQUES AUX JARDINS
July 12th
Find out more"On the footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci"
Leonardo da Vinci has left us more than 7,000 hand-written folios, his Notebooks, which cover a range of apparently unrelated subjects including botany, astronomy, painting, music and recipes.
This ambitious encyclopaedia of invention and knowledge reveals Leonardo da Vinci’s insatiable curiosity and ingenuity: the movement of the heavenly bodies, the beauty of a flower, the nature of water and wind, the refinement of colours, and the complexity of the human body. For Leonardo, all this is cause to admire the energy that drives and perpetuates life in what he calls, "this terrestrial machine."
Spectacle combining Music, Literature, Garden Design and Light
From an original idea by Patrick Scheyder
Patrick Scheyder, piano and design
Michael Lonsdale and
Monique Scheyder, actors
Skertzo, stage design and animated imagesLeonardo is at once artist and scholar, artisan and poet, courtier and man of the land. In texts of a rare beauty, staged for the first time, da Vinci completely assimilates the "human body" and the "terrestrial body": he considers the sea to be the blood of the Earth and the rivers and streams to be her veins.
The silhouette of Leonardo as a child, who grew up in the countryside among the vines, already scrutinising the active and silent force of plants, having brilliant intuitions about the internal movements of the human body, the Earth, the Cosmos and the Spirit of Life: a little-known side of this humanistic genius."In the footsteps of Leonardo" alternates the writings of Leonardo da Vinci with music by Bach and Schubert and improvisation.
The lighting design devised by Skertzo takes the form of animated projections of Leonardo’s drawings: the moving body, the vault of the heavens, countryside views, the Deluge, dancing figures, inventions, moving machines and more…
The magical atmosphere thus created echoes with the ambiance of the spectacles in the Court of Milan for which Leonardo, as scenographer, designed magnificent sets.21h30
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EXHIBITION : THE WORLD OF CREATION
June 8 - 26
"Creative genius, genius creations"
The Chateau du Clos Lucé once again places the spotlight oncreative design
In June, creative design will once again be in the spotlight at the Château du Clos Lucé. For the seventh year running, the chateau is hosting "The World of Creation", an exhibition showcasing the works of designers and craftsmen an women. From fashion to jewellery and including fine leatherwork, this event is a rare opportunity to keep abreast of changing trends and techniques.
Charlène Carillon
Oscar Carvallo
Maurizio Galante
Christophe Josse
Fanny Liautard
Stéphane Rolland
Yiqing Yin
Serge Amoruso
Brigitte Bonnave
Duvelleroy
Daniel Gontard
Pierre -Yves Gueraud
Tzuri Gueta
Françoise Hoffmann
Etablissements Lanel
Bruno Legeron
Gérard Lognon
Manufacture Prelle, Guillaume Verzier
Parfum sur MesureExhibition open from 10 to 18 p.m
Adult rate: 13,50€ (castle + park + exhibition)
Informations : Tel. +33 (0)2 47 57 55 78Téléchargez le communiqué de presse
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: CULTURAL EVENTS 2013
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April 18 - May 12"IDEAS AND IMAGES OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE WORKS OF MODERN CRAFTSMEN"
The Château du Clos Lucé supports the exhibition in Riga dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, getting together craftsmen from Lativa, Lithuania, Estonia and 15 russian artists. Paintings, leather design, prints, jewelry, installations, engineering works will be exhibited in St Peter’s Cathedral in Riga. ( 19 Skarnu road, Riga LV 1050).
More informations http://liveriga.com/en/6129June 1st (afternoon)
"RENDEZ-VOUS AUX JARDINS"
Visit of "Leonardo’s garden" by David Nabon, gardenerJune 8-26
THE WORLD OF CREATION - 7th year
"Creative genius, genius creations"
In June, creative design will once again be in the spotlight at the Chateau du Clos Lucé. For the seventh year running, the chateau is hosting " the World of Creation", an exhibition showcasing the work of designers and craftsmen and women. From fashion to jewellery and including fine leatherwork, this event is a rare opportunity to keep abreast of changing trends and techniques.
June 14, 2 p.m
CONFERENCE "BRICK AND STONE CASTLES IN THE LOIRE VALLEY"Intervenants:
François Saint Bris, Château du Clos Lucé, Président
Marine Pajon-Heron, Doctorante
Jean-Nicolas Corvisier , Professeur des Universités
Pierre Gilles Girault, Chateau royal de Blois, Conservateur
Aymeric de Baudus, Tuilerie de la Bretèche, Directeur
et Carol Geoffroy, Guide conférencier
Informations / booking : 06 33 51 58 18July 12, 9.30 pm
"MUSIC IN THE GARDENS"
"In the footsteps of Leonardo"
Spectacle combining Music, Literature, Garden Design and Light
From an original idea by Patrick Scheyder
Patrick Scheyder, piano and design
Michael Lonsdale and
Monique Scheyder, actors
Skertzo, stage design and animated images"In the footsteps of Leonardo" alternates the writings of Leonardo da Vinci with music by Bach and Schubert and improvisation.
The lighting design devised by Skertzo takes the form of animated projections of Leonardo’s drawings: the moving body, the vault of the heavens, countryside views, the Deluge, dancing figures, inventions, moving machines and more…
The magical atmosphere thus created echoes with the ambiance of the spectacles in the Court of Milan for which Leonardo, as scenographer, designed magnificent sets.
Information and bookings on +33 (0)2 47 57 55 78August 11,12,13
"NIGHT EVENT"
Leonardo and the Dance of the Planets
Text by Gilbert Gilet and Jean-Louis Dumont
Cast
Patrice Zonta, Leonardo
Antoine Sastre, Melzi, Galileo
Jean-Louis Dumont, Francis I
Marie Perrin, Urania
François Bonnet, The musicianLe Clos Lucé in 1518. At Francis I’s request, Leonardo is to recreate in Amboise the spectacle he held 25 years previously in Milan. For the centrepiece of the Festa del Paradiso, Leonardo had used candelabras, painted hangings, actors and wooden scaffolding to present the movement of the planets as they followed their course around the zodiac, thereby inventing the very first planetarium.
But twenty-five years later, Leonardo considers that the world has changed.At the universities of Bologna and Ferrara and throughout Europe, new ideas are gaining ground. Having corresponded with Copernicus, Leonardo is now convinced that the Earth, along with the other planets, revolves around the Sun.
How was he to represent for the king this new Dance of the Planets, the way the heavenly bodies orbit the Sun?
Designing his new spectacle, Leonardo discloses to his faithful confidant Melzi his doubts and his vision. He reveals to Melzi a universe in which the planets are no longer just points of light in the sky but worlds that are all different, like the Earth and the Moon. And Leonardo dreams of a new universe…
In his dream, Urania, the muse of Astronomy, introduces him to Galileo, and the two set off together to discover the face of Jupiter, Mars and Saturn as they are revealed through the lenses of spyglasses and telescopes…
Fascinated by the eddies in water, Leonardo is in turn carried off into the swirl of moving heavenly bodies, distant stars and inaccessible galaxies.
He takes the audience with him to witness his visions of a universe that man will not see for centuries to come…September 27, 28, 29
EUROPEAN FESTIVAL OF RENAISSANCE MUSIC - 8th yearEvery year, the Château du Clos Lucé holds the European Festival of Renaissance Music, which pays tribute to Leonardo da Vinci’s additional talents as a musician and player.
● On 27 September at 8.30pm, the Ensemble Il Festino is performing a programme devoted to Italy as seen by Renaissance France: "Dove ne vai crudele".
● On 28 September at 3.30pm, the Château du Clos Lucé is playing host to the Ensemble Jacques Moderne with the "Motets pour Mademoiselle de Guise" programme by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
● In the "Miragre" programme performed on 29 September at 3.30pm, Calixtinus tells of the miracles and stories witnessed by the travellers, nobles, knights and pilgrims journeying to the Holy Land.Information and bookings on +33 (0)2 47 57 55 78
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