The traces Da Vinci left behind testify to the wide reach of the artistic ideas he created and illustrate his great significance in the aesthetic education of elites, artists’ training and popular culture.
Role model for generations of artists
During his lifetime, his drawings and paintings were copied many times, and until the 19th Century generations of artists were guided by his visual ideas. Leonardo researcher Frank Zöllner sees the reason for this tremendous success in the combination of meticulous natural observation, which Leonardo placed at the heart of his art, the gift of finding new and dynamic solutions for long-established pictorial subjects and the development of his own trademark technique, known as "sfumato ".
Largest exhibit: Copy of Leonardo's "Last Supper"
The first section of the exhibition is dedicated to the reception of Leonardo's artistic concepts, using the example of several paintings and print reproductions from the 16th to 19th centuries. The main part of the exhibits comes from the Maximilian Speck of Sternburg collection, which forms part of the core of the Old Masters collection of the museum of fine arts. The largest work in the exhibition is a copy of Leonardo's "Last Supper," created by James Marshall in 1889 for the Leipzig Lutheran Church.
Leonardo's scientific studies
The second section of the exhibition deals with the reception of Leonardo's scientific studies. For the most part, the exhibits come from the substantial Leipzig University Library collections and include the first facsimile reproduction of the now famous Vitruvian proportioned drawing in Giuseppe Bossi's "Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci", from 1810. The facsimiles of the manuscripts and the history of their reception convey an impression of the diversity of Leonardo's studies as well as the appreciation of his ideas, which continues to this day.
Student collaboration
"Leonardo was never in Leipzig" is a joint project by students of the Institute of Art History of the University of Leipzig under the direction of Professor Frank Zöllner and the Museum of fine arts.
Time and place
12th July to 15th September 2019
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
Katharinenstrasse 10
04109 Leipzig, GermanyAdditional information
Quelle: https://www.leipzig.de/news/news/leon…m-of-fine-arts/