Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan at the National Gallery, London until February 5, 2012 provides the unique opportunity to look at some of his greatest paintings as works of art and to compare them directly.
We have mostly in the past been restricted to drawings from his scientific curiosity but this is the real deal. There are so few paintings by him and each of them is held so precious by their owners that to get an exhibition of such magnitude is nothing short of a miracle.
What makes Leonardo so great is his amazing powers of examination. He spent forever getting it right. He wanted to find out what the proportions of nature were, and laboured to produce an ideal beauty in his paintings. But that was his skill because the side that idealised the appearance of things and the side that struggled to observe with perfect accuracy and truth are infact in complete harmony.
If you miss it you will regret it for the rest of your natural.
Chris Sabian is a portrait artist with http://www.kutefineart.com and co-owner of http://www.paragonprints.co.uk
We have mostly in the past been restricted to drawings from his scientific curiosity but this is the real deal. There are so few paintings by him and each of them is held so precious by their owners that to get an exhibition of such magnitude is nothing short of a miracle.
What makes Leonardo so great is his amazing powers of examination. He spent forever getting it right. He wanted to find out what the proportions of nature were, and laboured to produce an ideal beauty in his paintings. But that was his skill because the side that idealised the appearance of things and the side that struggled to observe with perfect accuracy and truth are infact in complete harmony.
If you miss it you will regret it for the rest of your natural.
Chris Sabian is a portrait artist with http://www.kutefineart.com and co-owner of http://www.paragonprints.co.uk
