Milan, all of Leonardo's works in the city gathered under one ticket

From May 16, 2019, until Jan. 12, 2020, all of Leonardo da Vinci ’s works in Milan will be open to visitors with a single ticket at a special price, the result of an agreement between Polo Museale della Lombardia, the Municipality of Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana and Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia. The initiative, titled 5xLeonardo, coordinates the Milanese institutions that preserve evidence of Leonardo or his pupils, for the occasion brought together in order to allow the public to rediscover the works, projects and imprint that the Tuscan genius left in the Lombard capital. There are five museums that can be visited with a single discounted ticket: the Cenacolo Vinciano, the Sforza Castle Museums, the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana and the Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology.

The ticket is valid for 30 days from the date of the visit to the Cenacolo Vinciano (in fact, the purchase is conditional on booking the visit to the Cenacolo), after which all other museums can then be visited. At each museum, it is necessary to pass by the ticket office to endorse the 5xLeonardo ticket and collect the admission ticket for the museum itself. Fares: full 38 euros, reduced 25.50 euros (for young people aged 19 to 25 and over 65) special reduced 4.50 euros (for children and young people aged 5 to 18), free for children aged 0 to 4. A pre-sale of 2 euros is added for those purchasing tickets through call centers. 5xLeonardo can be purchased from April 18, 2019 at the call center (number 02 92800360), and from May 16 also directly at the Cenacolo ticket office. The agreement is also possible because extra admissions to the Cenacle will be guaranteed for those who buy the single ticket. Thanks to the installation of the air filtration and particulate control system supported by Eataly, the number of visitors allowed into the Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie will be gradually increased, according to a plan that balances public requests and conservation needs.

The tour of Leonardo’s works in Milan thus starts from the LastSupper, where theLast Supper, the great masterpiece executed in Santa Maria delle Grazie between 1495 and 1498, is located. At the Castello Sforzesco, on the other hand, is the Sala delle Asse, so called because it was once lined with wooden planks, and in which Leonardo created a mulberry arbor open to the sky, as a tribute to the lord of Milan, Ludovico il Moro (in Latin morus is the term for the mulberry tree). The Pinacoteca di Brera houses, in addition to the works of Leonardo’s painters, a work of fundamental importance for understanding the context in which Leonardo worked: it is the Pala Sforzesca, a painting by an unknown author that represents a sort of divine legitimization of the power of Ludovico il Moro and his descendants (in the work, Saint Ambrose is seen laying his hand on the duke’s shoulder). At the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the public can admire the Ritratto di musico (Portrait of a Musician), a work in which Leonardo portrayed a musician working at the court of Ludovico il Moro, and in the same complex one can visit the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, which preserves Leonardo’s 1119 autograph folios of the Codex Atlanticus (this year, moreover, the subject of four different exhibitions). Finally, at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, the public can observe models of the designs thought up by Leonardo and collected in the Atlantic Codex: there are hundreds of reconstructions, including, interesting also for the link with the city of Milan, those that reconstruct the system of locks, already in use for two centuries in Leoanrdo’s time, but perfected by him with the introduction of the maneuverable hatch at the embankment, aimed at reducing the effort of opening.

Pictured: Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, detail (1494-1498; Milan, Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano)

Milan, all of Leonardo's works in the city gathered under one ticket

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