PROGRAMME NOTES National Museum, Kraków Museum, National A note from Executive Producer Leonardo da c. 1489-1490, Ermine, an with Vinci, Lady The and Director Phil Grabsky Way back in 2011, we released our very first venture into what would become EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: a live film based on a major Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery in London. It was one of those blockbuster shows that you just couldn’t get a ticket for, and so, it was most exciting to use the relatively new medium of event cinema to bring it to such a huge audience - something that had never been done in the art world before. It has been a desire of mine since then to revisit Leonardo and to create a film that would explore more of his works.
Compared to our 2011 filmLeonardo Live, which focused on one exhibition and Leonardo’s Milan period specifically, Leonardo: The Works (which first graced cinemas in 2019 on the 500 year anniversary of the artist’s death) was a remarkably ambitious project in scope since its inception. We set out to tell the full story of the artist himself, to show you, our audience, every single attributed painting and to film as many of them as possible on location, which meant travelling to galleries all over the world from Scotland to Washington D.C. to Poland. Given the development of uncovering new discoveries and debates between digital technology since, we were also able to capture scholars are perhaps more heated than ever before. these masterpieces in a visual quality previously To evoke such interest in so many people a staggering impossible. 500 years on from one’s death is an extraordinary feat in itself. With more works by Leonardo being brought After 500 years, you would perhaps think that together on the big screen than ever before, this film everything there is to know about Leonardo is already will show you how and why our fascination with the known - it’s not. New conservation projects are always artist continues to this day.
Visit: http://bit.do/eossubscribe RECOMMENDED READING FEATURED WORKS The Lives of the Artists The Annunciation, c. 1472 by Giorgio Vasari Ginevra de’ Benci, 1476-1478 The Benois Madonna, 1478-1480 Living With Leonardo Adoration of the Magi, 1481-1482 by Martin Kemp Madonna Litta, c. 1481-1495 Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones The Virgin of the Rocks, 1483-1486 by Martin Kemp The Musician, c. 1484-1485 Lady with an Ermine, 1489-1490 Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing The Last Supper, c. 1494-1498 by Martin Clayton Sala delle Asse, c. 1498 Leonardo by Leonardo Salvator Mundi, c. 1500
by Martin Kemp Mona Lisa, c. 1503-1505
Gallery, Google Art Project Art Google Gallery, Andrea Andrea VerrocchioUffizi Leonardo & da 1470-80, Christ, of Vinci,Baptism
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EXHIBITION ON SCREEN is produced and distributed by award-winning documentary film-makers Seventh Art Productions. It has been making films on art, music and history for over 35 years and in that time it has produced almost 200 titles. Most are available to stream, download or purchase on DVD from its website: www.seventh-art.com