{"id":3507,"date":"2017-11-02T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:10:46","slug":"alessandro-soranzo-da-vinci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/alessandro-soranzo-da-vinci\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Alessandro Soranzo’s research referenced in new book on Leonardo da Vinci"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leonardo da Vinci: A Biography<\/em><\/a> by Professor of History Walter Isaacson<\/a> was published last month on 17 October 2017 and reveals Leonardo da Vinci visited a morgue to perfect Mona Lisa’s smile. The book contains references to Dr Alessandro Soranzo<\/a>‘s research on Leonardo’s La Bella Principessa<\/a><\/em> and her \u2018uncatchable\u2019 smile, in which the shape of her mouth appears to change according to view point.<\/p>\n

Read more about Alessandro’s research on the SHU Media page here<\/a>, and see the press coverage of the book at The Business Standard<\/a>, Asian Age<\/a>, India.com<\/a>, Deccan Chronicle<\/a>, Daily Observer<\/a>, Deccan Herald<\/a> and Hindustan Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr Alessandro Soranzo<\/a> is a Reader in Psychology within the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. His main area of interest lies in the Psychology of Perception, including; Colour and Illumination Perception, Visual Illusions, Perception and Art, Virtual Reality, and Robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leonardo da Vinci: A Biography by Professor of History Walter Isaacson was published last month on 17 October 2017 and reveals Leonardo da Vinci visited a morgue to perfect Mona Lisa’s smile. The book contains references to Dr Alessandro Soranzo‘s research on Leonardo’s La Bella Principessa and her \u2018uncatchable\u2019 smile, in which the shape of her mouth appears to change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":3512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,196,559,558,195],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-alessandro-soranzo","tag-leonardo-da-vinci","tag-mona-lisa","tag-psychology-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/11\/SORANZO-2017-10-da-Vinci-book-1.jpg?fit=890%2C378&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-Uz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6643,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/mccarthy-leonardo-talks-mg\/","url_meta":{"origin":3507,"position":0},"title":"Penny McCarthy’s ‘Inspired by Leonardo’ talks at the Sheffield Millennium Gallery this April","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"27\/03\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Sheffield Hallam University's Reader in Fine Art Penny McCarthy\u00a0will be holding two events this April at Sheffield's Millennium Gallery, coinciding with the\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing\u00a0exhibition which continues until Monday 06 May 2019. 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