LEONARDO DA VINCI EXHIBITION POSTCARD 6”x4”, STUDIES OF AN INFANT’S LIMBS C1490

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LEONARDO DA VINCI EXHIBITION POSTCARD 6”x4”, STUDIES OF AN INFANT’S LIMBS C1490

Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition Postcard 6”x4”.

‘Studies of an infant’s limbs’, C1490
From the ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST and the NATIONAL GALLERY of IRELAND

Presented by – Wollaton Hall Museum

Postcard size 6″ x 4″ (15x10cm) approx size.

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Archive Postcard from the collection of Wollaton Hall Museum.
The picture depicts – ‘Studies of an infant’s limbs’ by Leonardo da Vinci C1490
During 2016, ten of the finest drawings by Leonardo da Vinci in the Royal Collection travelled to Nottingham Castle for a new exhibition.
The works have been selected to show the extraordinary scope of the artist’s interests, from painting and sculpture to engineering, zoology, botany, mapmaking and anatomy, as well as his use of different media – pen and ink, red and black chalks, watercolour and metalpoint.
Through drawing, Leonardo attempted to record and understand the world around him. He maintained that an image transmitted knowledge more accurately and concisely than any words. Nonetheless, many of his drawings are extensively annotated, including the sheet of Studies for casting the equestrian monument to Francesco Sforza, c.1492–4, and the double-sided page from a notebook of anatomical studies, The heart compared to a seed and The vessels of the liver, spleen and kidneys, c.1508.
There are almost 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci in the Royal Collection. They were originally bound into a single album, which was probably acquired in the 17th century by Charles II. Beyond the 20 or so surviving paintings by Leonardo, the artist’s drawings are the main source of our knowledge of this extraordinary Renaissance man and his many activities.
Leonardo’s drawings are the richest, most wide-ranging, most technically brilliant, and most endlessly fascinating of any artist.
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Excellent Condition.

Carefully stored by Wollaton Hall Museum