Location: Beit Wing
Admission: Free, but pre-booking essential.
4 May - 17 July 2016
Beit Wing
Admission free, but pre-booking is essential
IMPORTANT NOTICE | Weekend availability is limited - Book here
The exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection, will open in the National Gallery from May 4th until July 17th 2016. It features ten of the finest drawings by Leonardo da Vinci on loan from the Royal Collection, which have been carefully selected to reflect the whole range of Leonardo's activities.
Though he trained as a painter, Leonardo expanded his activities into sculpture and architecture, engineering, botany, geology, hydraulics, optics and anatomy. His principle tool of investigation was drawing. Many of his drawings are extensively annotated, including the sheet of Studies for casting the equestrian monument to Francesco Sforza (c.1492-4), and the double-sided page from a notebook of anatomical studies: The heart compared to a seed and The vessels of the liver, spleen and kidneys(c.1508). His skilful use of different media is highlighted in the exhibition in works such as Study for the Head of St. Anne (black chalk, c.1510); A male nude (red chalk, c.1504-5), and his Studies of cats, lions and a dragon (pen and ink, c.1513-18).
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This exhibition is proudly supported by Key Capital
at National Gallery of Ireland
Merrion Square West & Clare Street
Dublin, Ireland
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