The Lost Leonardo Film Review by James Payne
James Payne reviews the new film “The Lost Leonardo” directed by Andreas Koefed and encounters a thrilling journey through the murky world of art.
4 September 2021
Leonardo Da Vinci
Da Vinci Notebooks Displayed Together In British Library First
To mark the 500th anniversary since the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the British Library is to mount an exhibition of the Renaissance master’s notebooks. ‘Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion’ at the British Library will reveal how he believed motion to be the cause of all life’.
6 June 2019
Salvator Mundi Loan Declined For Louvre Da Vinci Exhibition
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, named as the buyer of the highly contentious Salvator Mundi painting by Leonardo da Vinci has declined the loan of the painting to the Louvre in Paris for the large Da Vinci 500 Years show, set for this Autumn.
30 May 2019
Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion
To mark the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the British Library brings together highlights from three of his remarkable notebooks.
Mon/Wed/Thu/Fri 9:30-18:00 Tue 9:30-20:00 Sat 9:30-17:00 Sun 11:00-17:00
Leonardo Da Vinci A Man Of Seductive Charm – Edward Lucie-Smith
This will be a great year of Leonardo celebrations because 2019 marks five centuries since the great artist died and Leonardo is now one of the great monuments of Western culture. Various countries are squabbling over who can do his memory the most honour.
25 May 2019
Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life In Drawings
Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, the exhibition brings together more than 200 of the Renaissance master’s greatest drawings in the Royal Collection.
Daily 10:00 - 17:30 last admission 16:15
Leonardo da Vinci Drawings From Queen’s Collection Set To Tour Britain
Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci are set to tour Britain as part of celebrations to mark the 500th anniversary of his death. One hundred and forty four drawings many considered the rarest examples of his work are going on display in 12 cities.
10 February 2018
Leonardo da Vinci $450m Christ Becomes Most Expensive Painting Sold At Auction
A Leonardo da Vinci painting depicting Christ has become the world’s most expensive work of art sold at auction. The rediscovered masterpiece by the Renaissance master sold for a historic $450,312,500, superseding the previous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction.
16 November 2017
Privately Owned Leonardo da Vinci Painting To Be Sold At Christies
Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. Painted by one of the Renaissance greatest masters is to go under the hammer at Christie’s. Titled Salvator Mundi, it is one of fewer than 20 known paintings by Leonardo and the only one in private hands.
11 October 2017
Leonardo Da Vinci Export Ban French Government Declare Drawing National Treasure
The French government has put a temporary export bar on a recently uncovered double-sided drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
5 January 2017
Da Vinci’s Ermine Lady And Other Masterpieces Donated To The Polish Nation
Poland’s Czartoryski collection that includes Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine and Rembrandt’s Landscape with the Good Samaritan sold to Polish Government for a fraction of the market value.
30 December 2016
Leonardo Da Vinci: Portrait Of The Artist Revealed After 500 Years
A music professor has identified a new portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. The 500-year-old engraving, if verified, will be only… Read More
3 June 2015
Staggeringly Over-Priced Modigliani And Leonardo Da Vinci Works Behind Yves Bouvier Case
The Swiss businessman Yves Bouvier, the head of art storage, shipping, and servicing company Natural Le Coultre, as well as… Read More
16 March 2015
Da Vinci Expert Denies Authenticating Seized Leonardo Painting Found In Swiss Vault
A painting of great value believed to be the work of Leonardo da Vinci was recently seized on the orders… Read More
12 February 2015
Leonardo Da Vinci Painting To Be Sold For $135 Million, Seized From Swiss Bank
A painting of great value believed to be the work of Leonardo da Vinci has been seized on the orders… Read More
11 February 2015
Da Vinci Portrait Slips Through The Net At Christie’s For £12,000
The discovery of a long lost painting by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci is always headline news in the… Read More
5 October 2013
Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Work Explored In New Royal Collection Exhibition
Almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci’s death, an exhibition that sheds new light on the his groundbreaking studies of… Read More
1 August 2013
Stolen Masterpiece The Journey of Leonardo’s Tavola Doria Ends
From Naples to Switzerland then Germany and Japan and back to Italy, the journey of Leonardo’s “Tavola Doria” reads like… Read More
4 December 2012
Da Vinci Code Cracked by Discovery In Scottish Farmhouse
Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance master was known for his immense creative genius: his energy and interest in everything… Read More
18 August 2012
Da Vinci Anatomical Drawings On Display At Palace
The Queen Opens Da Vinci Diamond Jubilee Exhibition In May The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace is staging the first display… Read More
23 April 2012
Demand For Lucian Freud Tickets Exceeds Da Vinci And Coldplay
Art is hot stuff right now. Hockney is the talk of the town far more than this or that film,… Read More
24 February 2012
Best London Art Exhibitions Of The Year
2011 has been a spectacular year for art exhibitions: here are ArtLyst’s Top 11 (top 10’s are so passé) in… Read More
14 December 2011
Da Vinci Exhibition Threatened By Security Cuts At National Gallery
Promise of industrial action as National Gallery looks to cut security by half The runaway success of the National Gallery’s… Read More
21 November 2011
Da Vinci Masterpieces Reunited In London
Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery grants deeply intimate insight into the practice of the quintessential celebrity artist Visitors to… Read More
9 November 2011
Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition Comes At High Price
Taxpayer could pay £1.5 billion if Leonardo da Vinci paintings are harmed during ground-breaking National Gallery exhibition The National Gallery’s… Read More
7 November 2011
London da Vinci Exhibition Set To Break Records
This autumn The National Gallery in London is set to break all records with a new exhibition of masterpieces by… Read More
10 May 2011
Mona Lisa Tomb Raiders Search for Corpse
Controversy surrounds plans to dig up the grave of a Florentine woman thought to be the sitter of the Mona Lisa.
6 April 2011