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Ten drawings of Leonardo da Vinci to be exhibited in Britain

Xinhua, May 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

Ten drawings of well-known Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci will travel to four museums across Britain and Ireland in 2016.

The four exhibitions will be held in four museums and galleries in Newcastle, Nottingham, Swansea and Dublin next year, Britain's Royal Collection Trust announced on Wednesday.

Royal Collection Trust said the ten drawings would show audience the extraordinary scope of the great artist's interests, from painting and sculpture to engineering, zoology, botany, mapmaking and anatomy, as well as his use of different media, such as pen and ink, red and black chalks, watercolour and metalpoint.

Among those works, one will show the artist's studies of baby's bodies, chiefly of baby's legs. He drew the legs and bodies by metalpoint, partly gone over with pen and ink on a pale buff prepared paper.

While another work contained more than 20 drawings of cats in a wide variety of positions, lions with different movements, as well as a dragon drawn at an odd angle.

There are almost 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci in the Royal Collection, which were originally bound into a single album, but was probably acquired in the 17th century by Charles II, the King of England, Scotland and Ireland, according to the Royal Collection Trust.

As the archetype of the Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci only had around 20 paintings of his survived, including the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. But his drawings became the main source of the knowledge of this extraordinary man.

The first exhibition of the ten drawings will start on Feb. 13, 2016 at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, and will end on April 24. The rest will be shown at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin from 4 May to 17 July, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery from 30 July to 9 October, and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea between October 15 and January 6, 2017. Endit