Leonardo Da Vinci beyond the photo.
Painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, sculptor, scientist, writer... Talk about Leonardo da Vinci broadly speaking it is to fall very short because how the great figure of the Renaissance can be condensed in a few lines.
To know his work it would take almost a lifetime, since the magnitude of his work is as great as all his abilities were.
** 500 years ago Da Vinci died in the French city of Amboise ** (1519) . the artificer of The Last Supper he lived for the last three years of his life housed in the Château du Clos Lucé at the invitation of king Francis I . For this reason, and despite having been born in Vinci, Florence, the Louvre Museum boasts of having a large part of his work.
This October 24 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death the museum organizes leonard de vinci , the largest retrospective held in Paris on the artist.
The exhibition aims to illustrate how Leonardo placed the painting at the highest level and how his investigation of his world, which he referred to as "the science of painting" , was the instrument through which he tried to give life to his canvases.
Portrait of Da Vinci attributed to Francesco Melzi.
Along with his own collection of five Leonardo paintings, the largest in the world, and 22 of his drawings, the Louvre will show almost 120 works (paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculptures and art objects) of some of the most prestigious European and American institutions (such as the Royal Collection, the British Museum and the National Gallery in London, the Vatican Pinacoteca, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the Galleria Nazionale in Parma, the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Institute of France).
However, the Mona Lisa , his most enigmatic work, will remain in the permanent collection gallery.
Saint Jean Baptiste.
“The extraordinary fame of the endlessly curious artist, who quickly came to be seen as the incarnation of genius Y universal knowledge , the almost surreal aura of the Mona Lisa, and the considerable work in literature today, provides an ambiguous and fragmented view of Leonardo's relationship with painting.
The exhibition is the culmination of more than ten years of work , notably including new scientific examinations of the Louvre paintings, and the conservation treatment of three of them (Saint Anne, La Belle Ferronnière, and Saint John the Baptist), which allows a better understanding of Da Vinci's artistic practice and pictorial technique.
Portrait of Isabelle d'Este.
Furthermore, it also aims shed light on Leonardo's biography through the exhaustive re-examination of the historical documentation, breaking with the canonical approach to the life of the Florentine master, based on six chronological periods punctuated by his geographical movements, and by drawing on a selection of keys that provide access to his universe.
thus arises the portrait of an exceptionally free-spirited man and artist. The exhibition concludes with a virtual reality experience developed in collaboration with HTC Vive that allows visitors get closer than ever to the Mona Lisa.
The Louvre Museum anticipates great expectation, which is why it is recommended to buy tickets in advance. You can purchase them here.