Leonardo da Vinci For the Bridge in Ice we have found our inspiration in a wellknown genius. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. Besides all these interest he also has been called the father of architecture. Leonardo da Vinci designed a stone bridge in 1502 for the sultan of Istanbul with a span of 240 meters, which has never been built. At that time people thought such a big span 12 could not be realized. The design turned out to be so interesting that there has been done a lot of research on the ‘Galata Bridge’. Even some full-scale models were constructed. In 2001 a pedestrian bridge in wood, based on Leonardo’s design, has been built in Norway, as well as some small ice bridges. On Thursday 24 September, Arno Pronk went to Milan to visit the Museo Nazionale Scienza E Technogia Leonardo Da Vinci. In this museum, a model of the Ponti De Galata bridge, as designed by Leonardo Da Vinci, can be found. Claudio Giorgione (conservator) and Vincenzo Iannone showed the model that was made by Alcide De Rizzardi in 1955.
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