Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty

The exhibition Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty, featuring a number of the most admired drawings by celebrated artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), will be open on April 15 ath Museum of Fine Art –MFA-, Boston. Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art, and featuring important loans from Italy, this exhibition explores the artist's concepts of ideal beauty. It will be on view at the MFA through June 14. The Leonardo da Vinci's drawings have been recognized for centuries as the deepest window into his thinking. The artist poured the full fervor of his intelligence and creative powers into the works on view, which offer a rich and varied selection of loans from Italy (primarily from the Uffizi Museum in Florence and the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, as well as the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, the ancestral property of Michelangelo.) The Codex on Flight, an important loan from the Biblioteca Reale, features a newly discovered self-portrait from 1505. The exhibition also includes select drawings by Michelangelo (1475–1564), offering a unique opportunity to compare a series of these rivals' drawings. Media sponsor is Boston Magazine. Presented with support from the Cordover Exhibition Fund and the MFA Associates/MFA Senior Associates Exhibition Endowment Fund. Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Virginia in partnership with Associazione