This year is the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci – and if you’re planning a visit to London this summer, check out the exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
Forget Dan Brown’s execrable books and films. Leonardo completed fewer than 20 paintings that we know of, but he would have been hugely significant if he’d never picked up a paintbrush. He spent most of his life as a designer and an obsessive scholar of detail – and as Leonardo da Vinci – A Life in Drawing shows, his drawings were integral to his scientific research.
