Exhibit January 22, 2017 This was awarded inside the  Congress Palace, Galileo Galilei Room,  in Pisa, Italy. Galileo was very interested in art since boyhood. He is known as the father of many sciences: observational astronomy, modern physics, the "scientific method," even science. But like others in his age, that didn't cover his gifts. As Wikipedia puts it in his biography, Galileo also studied disegno, a term encompassing fine art, and in 1588 obtained the position of instructor in th...