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Join us for an evening celebrating the works of the famous 15th century artist Leonardo da Vinci. We will journey to the small town of Vinci in the hills west of Florence where he began his life. We will walk among the streets of Florence where the teenage Leonardo perfected his craft. And we will go north to Milan and enter the silent halls of Santa Maria delle Grazie where Leonardo painted his greatest work, the extraordinary “Last Supper.”
William H. Fredlund, the Director of the Institute, obtained his B.A. and M.A. from UCLA, where he specialized in European history and art history. He studied in Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship and completed a double Ph.D. in history and humanities at Stanford, specializing in Renaissance Italy. Dr. Fredlund has taught for UCLA, the University of Florence, Stanford, and UCSC Extension.