The National Gallery (London, United Kingdom) presents the exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan examining Leonardo's extraordinary observation, imagination and technique. The exhibition concentrates on his career as a court painter in Milan, working for the city's ruler Ludovico Maria Sforza, il Moro ('the Moor') in the 1480s and 1490s.
A copy of the Mona Lisa was put on display at the Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain) yesterday where it will stay until it moves to Paris for its inclusion in the exhibition at the Louvre on Leonardo that opens on 29 March.
Leonardo da Vinci’s masterwork The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, restored with the aid of the C2RMF (Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France), is the centerpiece of an exhibition at the Louvre Museum (Paris, France) that reunites all surviving related works for the first time.
Organized by the Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom) Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist is the largest-ever exhibition of his ground-breaking studies of the human body, which will take place at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace through October 7, 2012.
This autumn, De Nieuwe Kerk’s Masterpiece series (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) will feature a work by Andy Warhol. From 6 October to 11 November 2012, De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam will be exhibiting his religious and spiritual masterpiece The Last Supper (pink), from 1986. At the end of his life, Warhol (1928–1987) made a series of works on this theme, which many experts regard as his most important achievement.