Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
FRANCE
PARIS • Musée du Louvre • Ongoing
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A modified version of the comprehensive survey of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings on view earlier this season at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this international loan exhibition brings together nearly 120 works by one of the great masters of all time. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) stands as a supreme icon in western consciousness--—the very embodiment of the universal Renaissance genius. The exhibition surveys Leonardo's staggering contribution as an artist, scientist, theorist, and teacher. Gathered from private and public collections in Europe and North America---with unprecedented loans coming from Windsor Castle, the Louvre, and the Galleria dell'Academia in Venice---the selection of drawings illustrates a great variety of drawing types.
Of special importance is the Vatican Museum's Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness, an unfinished painting that reveals much of the orginal drawing and the artist's fingerprints, helping us to understand his creative process.
The exhibition also integrates a small group of drawings by artists critical to Leonardo's formation in Florence and to his multifaceted activity in Milan, in an attempt to offer a unified view of the great master's legacy. These include Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Lorenzo di Credi, so that for the frist time ever, Leonardo's spirited study for the Sforza equestrian monument from around 1488 can be seen next to Pollaiuolo's working modello for the same project, probably prepared in competition.
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