Da Vinci exhibition, Brussels
A new exhibition on Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci has recently opened at the Koekelberg Basilica in Brussels.
‘Leonardo – The European Genuis’ will run until March 2008 and has been launched to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.
A number of Da Vinci’s original works are on display including the Codex of the Flight of Birds, on loan from the Turin Library and a semi-nude portrait of Mary Magdalene, that had been unseen for fifty years when it was found five years ago in a private Swiss collection. The exhibition also features facsimiles of Da Vinci’s notebooks and films about the artist’s genius.
Around 100 original drawings and sketches by Raphael, Michelangelo, Canaletto, Albrecht Durer and Hieronymus Bosch are also on display at the exhibition.
Groups of 20 or more receive discounted entry and audio tours can also be purchased.