Leonardo's mechanical lion Working model

After the first display in Florence at the Uffizi Gallery (28 March 2006 – 7 January 2007), where the exhibition was visited by over 1,100,000 people, and the second one at the Tokyo National Museum (20 March – 17 June 2007), that has seen nearly 800,000 visitors in less than three months, The Mind of Leonardo will be presented to the Hungarian public under the title Az igazi Da Vinci. The exhibition has been conceived and produced by the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence and the State Museums of Florence, with the fundamental contribution of the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze.

Construction phases of the Sforza monument 3D video animation

The Debrecen exhibition is promoted by the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, in collaboration with MODEM–Debrecen Museum of Modern Art and the Municipality of Debrecen.

The Debrecen show displays the sections III to VI of the original exhibition, integrated with a new section devoted to Leonardo’s studies on horses and the extraordinary life-size reconstruction of the Sforza Horse, a gigantic equestrian monument over 7 metres high, both purposely conceived for the Hungarian public.

Leonardo da Vinci, Self-Portrait Biblioteca Reale, Turin