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"We must do"
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
-- Leonardo da Vinci
The Colonial Theater had a late cancellation of a live show, so today we found out about tonight's one-night-only presentation of Leonardo Live, which is a documentary about the da Vinci exhibit at the National Gallery in London, which closed a few days ago. See it if you get the chance; just watching one of the artists make part of a frame for one of da Vinci's paintings was enough to make me choke up. Incredibly, the completed da Vinci paintings in the world number only in the teens, and most of them (and lots of his sketches) were brought together for this exhibit, which the curators say will probably never be repeated. They have his two versions of the "Virgin of the Rocks" (one on loan from the Louvre) side by side for the first time ever. They say that even he never saw them both together, as they were completed about 25 years apart.
info here:
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/leonardolive
We visited the National Gallery last July on a layover enroute to Edinburgh. We'd been awake for more than 24 hours by the time we got there, but loved it along with the several other museums we visited a week later when we returned to London. The Victoria and Albert was my favorite of the London museums, but I could easily spend a summer exploring them all in detail. I miss the Queen's Arms pub at least as much, and would love a London Lager and a plate of fish and chips tonight, followed by some salted caramel ice cream.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
The Colonial Theater had a late cancellation of a live show, so today we found out about tonight's one-night-only presentation of Leonardo Live, which is a documentary about the da Vinci exhibit at the National Gallery in London, which closed a few days ago. See it if you get the chance; just watching one of the artists make part of a frame for one of da Vinci's paintings was enough to make me choke up. Incredibly, the completed da Vinci paintings in the world number only in the teens, and most of them (and lots of his sketches) were brought together for this exhibit, which the curators say will probably never be repeated. They have his two versions of the "Virgin of the Rocks" (one on loan from the Louvre) side by side for the first time ever. They say that even he never saw them both together, as they were completed about 25 years apart.
info here:
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/leonardolive
We visited the National Gallery last July on a layover enroute to Edinburgh. We'd been awake for more than 24 hours by the time we got there, but loved it along with the several other museums we visited a week later when we returned to London. The Victoria and Albert was my favorite of the London museums, but I could easily spend a summer exploring them all in detail. I miss the Queen's Arms pub at least as much, and would love a London Lager and a plate of fish and chips tonight, followed by some salted caramel ice cream.
