Da Vinci: The Genius Exhibition at MOSI

Yesterday I was lucky enough to go see the most amazing exhibition showing the true genius of Leonardo Da Vinci. As I have mentioned before he is a big inspiration to my work and one of my favourite Artists but he wasn't just an artist he was also an inventor, scientist, engineer, sculpture, anatomist, Biologist, musician, architect, philosopher.. he was all these and much more. This is what the exhibition ' Da Vinci: The Genius' was set to show and achieve, never has there ever been one exhibition to show all of Da Vinci's in depth knowledge and genius in all of the many subjects. So I had to go and see it.

"Leonardo’s legacy of genius is preserved primarily in his codices; tiny notebooks of categorised

drawings and writings on a multitude of subjects. Unravelling the mysteries of these codices and bringing to life the inventions, ideas and philosophies of this great man is essentially the journey of the Da Vinci -The Genius exhibition. This is not an exhibit of original artefacts; Leonardo never actually produced the majority of what he designed, what little remains has failed the test of time. This exhibition provides a tangible and easy to understand exploration into the diversity of ideas that consumed arguably the greatest mind the world has ever known."

Quote from the exhibition site: http://davincithegenius.com/traveling-exhibition.php 

I saw the exhibition at The Museum of Science and Technology (MOSI) in Manchester and it actually ends today when the exhibition had already been extended from June as it was so popular. It is a traveling exhibition that is going all around the world and it was well worth the £5 I payed to see it. The exhibition had everything, the secrets behind his most famous works Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and The Vitruvian Man and prototypes made from his sketches of many of his inventions in the codices, also his Anatomical studies/sketches which I absolutely love and lots more. It was an amazing experience and I found out how much more of a genius he was than I originally thought! Please if you get chance, go see it! Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take any photo's so I took these off of the exhibition site which you have to go check out: http://davincithegenius.com/index.php