An exhibition in Milan reconstructs the works of Leonardo's genius

Photography: Paolo Soave – National Museum of Science and Technology

A wooden boat, a float, webbed gloves and Copper stills, a rotating crane, a diving suit and a flying machine with a leaf motor. These are just some of Leonardo's 52 extraordinary historical models, which, together with the collection of frescoes at the Brera Pinacoteca, are on display at the "Leonardo da Vinci Parade" exhibition, open until the 13th. October at the Museum of Science and Technology of Milan. of the first initiative carried out for celebrations for the fifth centenary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci (1519-2019) for the program "Milan and Leonardo" which officially opens on May 2, 2019. The exhibition, organized by the Museum and made in collaboration with the Pinacoteca di Brera, it will be used in the museum to do modernization work in the famous Galleria Leonardo

It's called "Parade", as explains Fiorenzo Galli, Director General of the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, during the conference pa, "because it is a parade.It is the exhibition of two of our great collections: one is related to about fifty of the more than 130 historical patterns, interpretative patterns of the drawings." Leon Vinci ard; the other is a collection of 29 tears, frescoes, from the Brera deposit, from the Bernardino Luini school, then substantially from the 16th century Lombard school. They are important because they represent the birth of the museum, in 1953 these frescoes were given by the director of Brera to our founder Guido Ucelli, constituted a fundamental repository for linking science and technology represented symbolically and not only, by da Vinci models, with art. "

Leonardo Da Vinci Parade Exhibition

The installation is quite original The models "are on a platform, a kind of stage with all the limelight – explains the curator Claudio Giorgione – where the oldest models that survive today are gathered."

"Very few texts because we wanted them to be the objects to talk about and only 2 touch screens with information. This step dialogue with the gallery: the 29 frescoes ranging from the end of 400 to the second 500 years, torn by many churches that no longer exist today. Among these, some n & # 39; They have not been exposed for decades and the Pala dated 1521 is particularly interesting. "These works are on two large walls to evoke the supports of museum depots – concludes Galli – with the aim of creating a striking gallery that documents the churches and convents have disappeared in many cases through these frescoes, we can reconstruct a virtual map of the years when there was Leonardo. "

Exhibition of the parade Leonardo da Vinci

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