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"Invention and Design: Early Italian Drawings" tells the story of how drawing evolved during the 15th and early 16th centuries and features artists such as #Mantegna , #Lippi , #Botticelli , Leonardo #daVinci , #Raphael , and Andrea del Sarto. Learn more: https://t.co/YTUass6PCf pic.twitter.com/kVx0YDPhTs — The Morgan (@MorganLibrary) December 20, 2018 Invention and Design: Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan February 15 through May 19, 2019 From the Morgan Library and Museum Website: "The Morgan’s impressive collection of Italian Drawings documents the development of Renaissance drawing practice from its beginnings in the fourteenth century and over the following two centuries. Drawings from the earlier part of the Renaissance—by artists born before 1500—are a particular strength of the collection, but this exhibition will be the first to focus on this material, featuring works by artists such as Mantegna, ...

Musée du Louvre  ‏ @ MuseeLouvre     3m 3 minutes ago # Onthisday in 1452 was born # LeonardoDaVinci . Admire "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" : http:// bit.ly/1NHx8YD  

Leonardo da Vinci is an artist whose name is instantly recognizable but whose artwork can seem so familiar to 21st century eyes that the actual paintings feel lost behind a veil of cultural expectations. Paul Strathern's new book, The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped, allows us to see Leonardo as a living man and artist shaped by his time, friendships and experiences. Strathern's book opens with an epigraph spoken by Orson Welles' character, Harry Lime, in The Third Man . From the vantage point of a ferris wheel high above Vienna, Orson Welles surveys the battered post-war city beneath him and says. "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that pro...