The art of fragrance takes on new meaning in exhibitions, including “Leonardo da Vinci and Perfumes of the Renaissance' and “Sleeping Beauties.”
,” which is being shown on the grounds of the Château du Clos Lucé. The stately red brick building in the Loire Valley was the polymath’s last home before he died in 1452.
But then Brioist checked and found numerous elements, especially while talking with Vecce, professor of Italian literature at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Catarina was freed by her lover Piero da Vinci, Leonardo’s father. Leonardo da Vinci and his mother arrived in Florence from Vinci, Italy, when he as a young teen left behind odors of the Tuscan countryside, such as jasmine, rosemary and olive trees, for a world of aromas including perfumed clothes, ink, lead, wax, lemons and oranges.
In his “Codex Atlanticus,” da Vinci writes: “Add peeled almonds together with the flowers of bitter orange, jasmine, privet or other fragrant flowers and change the water each time you have to change the flowers, so that the almonds do not take on a musty smell. Solvents. Remove the ammonia.”Da Vinci joined the Sforza court in Milan in 1482.
Elsewhere, from a Renaissance recipe, perfumer Nadège Le Garlantezec adopted sweet-smelling water that was sprinkled on to clothes and linens. Also bringing the Court of Francis I to life are a violet scent and fragranced sachets reconstituted by Océane Fontaine Cioffi.Brioist had previously used an olfactive element in an exhibition to help illustrate Renaissance battlefield.
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