New York, Metropolitan celebrates Leonardo da Vinci's 500th anniversary by exhibiting four drawings

New York ’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will also celebrate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci ’s death by exhibiting four drawings from his archives that are rarely put on display because of their fragility.

These are preparatory drawings made by the Genius of Vinci in the late 15th and early 16th centuries: they are a study for an altarpiece with the Virgin in Adoration of the Child (ca. 1482-85), a profile of a man (ca. 1490-94), a sketch for an allegory of the fidelity of the lizard (1496) and a study for a head of the Virgin (ca. 1510-15).

The last time these drawings were exhibited was in 2004, as part of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman. There will also be space for two versions of the preparatory drawing of theLast Supper, one of which was made by Rembrandt. The four drawings will be on display from January 29 to April 28.

Pictured: the study for altarpiece with the Virgin in Adoration of the Child.

New York, Metropolitan celebrates Leonardo da Vinci's 500th anniversary by exhibiting four drawings

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