New Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibit Opens at London’s National Gallery
Wednesday marked the opening of an exciting new exhibition of works by Leonardo Da Vinci at London’s National Gallery. The show is titled ‘Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan’, and it features paintings and drawings by the Renaissance Master.
The show will feature nine of the 15 authenticated Da Vinci paintings, including the recently discovered and verified ‘Salvator Mundi’. Other paintings include the first version of ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’, which will be the first time the painting has left the Louvre in Paris, ‘La Belle Ferronniere’, and ‘The Lady With an Ermine’.
All works come from the period when Da Vinci was working as a painter and engineer for the Duke of the Sforza Court in Milan. It was during this time that the master became obsessed with science, and many of the drawings show this fervor, with sketches of anatomy and geometry.
The exhibition has been called a ‘once in a lifetime’ experience, as it is the first time so many of the great master’s paintings have been exhibited together, and thus is a not to be missed event for those living in or traveling to London.
