LA VOCE DELL’ADDA. Leonardo e la civiltà dell’acqua

Cremona, a city closely linked to the River Adda, welcomes a photographic exhibition dedicated to the great river in the Sala degli Alabardieri of the Municipality.
Fondazione AEM celebrates the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death with an exhibition composed of photographs reproduced on panels, which reconstructs the route of the Adda from its sources in the Rhaetian Alps to Cremona.

The exhibition presents images of the great Milan’s ex-municipalised hydroelectric works, regarding the territory and the naturalistic, technological and social context crossed by the river. The rich photographic repertoire, which ranges from rare photographs from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the ones from the 1930s and 1950s, up to 1980s Contemporary Collection, and finally from the most recent photographic campaigns commissioned by Fondazione Aem.