last weekend we had the opportunity to see the da vinci exhibition at the science centre. yes, the science centre, not at an art museum.

the exhibition focused on da vinci’s life as a scientist and engineer, and the works of pascal cotte who made high-resolution photographs of his paintings. cotte’s studies of the mona lisa in particular, revealed the true pigments da vinci used and other details such as her eyebrows and lashes (she did have some!). da vinci’s machine inventions were amazing, considering the industrial supplies available to him at the time. his anatomical drawings looked like they were taken straight out of some medical textbook. and though i knew that he could write backwards, i didn’t realize that he wrote all his notes this way!

it was a small exhibit, wouldn’t have taken a couple of hours (especially if you do not have antsy kids with you who’d rather go to the water playground within the centre), but one which left me in awe of da vinci. he’s well known as an art maestro, but he’s more, so much more than that.

if you’ve read the da vinci code, and would like to read another fiction of such genre featuring da vinci and his work, i can recommend Painting Mona Lisa and The Secret Supper: A Novel.

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