London to host the largest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci

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London to host the largest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci

In November, London's National Gallery opens an exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci: the artist Milanese court. Media are already calling this event the most ambitious museum project in Europe this season.

Organizers promise a unique exhibition, which will be collected all the paintings by the artist, which was only possible to set.

Leonardo da Vinci as a scientist, inventor, and the schedule is already well known thanks to the audience many exhibition projects, while his painting remained in the shadows. Therefore, the curators of the National Gallery decided to focus on Leonardo as artist-painter, who served at the court of Ludovico Sforza.

Nevertheless, the exhibition viewers will see a lot of graphics, including over 50 master drawings that had not shown either in a single exposure.

The exhibition will be possible through the cooperation of many museums worldwide, among the exhibits - Madonna Litta from the Hermitage, the Louvre and the Vatican Ferronera beautiful Saint Jerome, and both Madonna in the rock (from Paris and London), which will be shown together for the first time.

At the end of the exhibition the viewer is waiting for a detailed account of the creation of the Last Supper with preparatory sketches and a copy of the most life-size murals. Vernissage will be held on November 8, it will be broadcast on television and in films with a film by Tim Marlow and Mariella Frostrap about the exhibition and works on it, which commentators will perform the best specialists and experts works of Leonardo. Before visiting the exhibition can be ordered as illustrated lecture about the artist.

The exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci: the artist Milanese court held in London from November 9 to 5 February 2012.

We have previously reported that a posthumous exhibition of works by British designer Alexander McQueen's wild beauty of the New yorkskom Metropolitan Museum established an absolute record of attendance, and among the ten most visited exhibitions in the 140-year history of the museum.