Quench
Drawings
By Natalia Popova
This exhibition offers an exclusive overview of da Vinci’s career and the variety of his subjects and techniques.
The drawings include scientific sketches of gun barrels and mortars, plants and studies for paintings and statues. As for the latter, there is a surprising drawing based on Michelangelo’s David.
As always, the works are of brilliant inventiveness, yet they are also highly impractical. There are also two more light- hearted works involving pictograms, which reveal a more playful side of da Vinci, which is not known by many. Although 10 drawings does not seem much, they are very well chosen, and will introduce you to, or make you more familiar with, the genius da Vinci was.
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