Over the last three months a nationwide event organised by the Royal Collection Trust has been taking place at 12 art galleries in the UK displaying 144 of Leonardo Da Vinci's greatest drawings in the Royal Collection. It marks the 500th anniversary of his death.
We had hoped to visit the Walker Gallery in Liverpool when we were there, but in the end we didn't have enough time to go there. Thankfully one of the exhibitions is in the Millennium Gallery.
Photography is not allowed in the exhibition gallery, but there was a reception room being used as a workshop/learning and education area where I did take photos of the information boards. There was a collection of books about the artist that a visitor could browse through and an information video.
A man's face similar to one of Da Vinci's drawings had been created using schoolchildren's sketches.
There were items a visitor could buy at the gallery shop. Daughter D bought a fridge magnet as a souvenir to take home and I purchased a book which is a thick one full of beautiful illustrations and information about the life and times of this wonderful artist.
The exhibition Leonardo Da Vinci: A Life in Drawing will close on the 6th May. There are a few talks and workshops that are still taking place until then and then I'm looking forward to another Ruskin exhibition taken from Sheffield Art Galleries' Collection and loans of items from the National Collection, John Ruskin: Art and Wonder (29 May-15 September, 2019). It will feature Ruskin's fascination with the natural world and celebrate Ruskin's bicentenary. There will be many events celebrating Ruskin's life taking place in Sheffield during 2019.