The National Gallery’s recent Leonardo blockbuster highlighted the great Renaissance polymath’s prowess as a painter. This new exhibition sheds lights on his expertise as a draughtsman and anatomist, thanks to the Queen’s unsurpassed hoard of his drawings. The 87 pages of largely human studies, rendered in pen-and-ink, chalk and metalpoint, come from the hundreds of loose notes and drawings that were left, unsorted, by Leonardo when hie died, and acquired in the seventeenth century by Charles II for the Royal Collection. ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist’ is the largest ever display of this material and equally worthy of the blockbuster prefix.
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