Exhibition:
The Mind of Leonardo -
At the time of the "Battle of Anghiari"
Print and Drawing Department of the Uffizi Gallery
Oct. 3, 2006 - Jan. 7, 2007

Head of a warrior Szepmuveszeti Muzeum Budapest no. 1774r

From October 3 the exhibition The Mind of Leonardo will be enriched by an additional section entitled At the time of the “Battle of Anghiari” (1504-1508), hosted by the Print and Drawing Department of the Uffizi Gallery.

Section VII represents a real “exhibition within an exhibition”, offering visitors the opportunity to admire over 30 of Leonardo’s original drawings, lent by prestigious cultural institutions from all over the world, a priceless autographed original manuscript (the well-known Codex On the Flight of Birds), striking paintings based on Leonardo’s lost works, as well as sculptures, extremely rare engravings and ancient prints.

At the time of the “Battle of Anghiari” has two main objectives. Using an approach which differs from the conceptual analysis adopted for the other sections, attention is drawn here to Leonardo’s activities in a specific period of his life, revealing his unitary vision distinctive of his efforts to describe the various wondrous forces of nature and man with a few universal principles.

The second objective, particularly appropriate to honour the quincentenary of Leonardo’s great but ill-fated pictorial undertaking, is to reconstruct the conception and significance of the lost Battle of Anghiari through documentary evidence, autographed preparatory studies, and copies inspired by Leonardo’s works - including paintings, drawings and engravings by contemporary or late-generation artists.