Last week, my husband and I went to the Da Vinci – The Genius exhibition at the National Science Centre in Mont Kiara. The exhibition demonstrates the full scope of Leonardo Da Vinci’s remarkable work as an inventor, artist, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, musician and architect.
Before this, i didn't know that Leonardo from a small place called Vinci (hence, Leonardo Da Vinci) was the mind behind the concept of scuba diving, planes, war tanks, catapults and machine guns. He was well-known to most of us as an artist who produced masterpieces such as "The Last Supper" and the ever famous "Mona Lisa" (I am very contented to have seen the real portrait currently housed in the Lourve Museum, Paris many years back).
The highlight of the exhibition in my opinion is the “Secrets of Mona Lisa,” which showcases the work of French engineer Pascal Cotte. His life-long passion for the preservation of the Mona Lisa led him to invent the 240-megapixel Multi-spectral Imaging Camera, which uses infrared technology and intense illumination to uncover how the Mona Lisa looked as she was originally painted.
Other interesting facts are:
1. The portrait of Mona Lisa is actually unfinished (at least in the eyes of Leonardo Da Vinci)
2. Mona Lisa has no visible facial hair—including eyebrows and eyelashes.
3. Until this day, nobody can confidently say who the sitter was (Was Mona Lisa a real female or did Da Vinci used his own likeness when drawing the portrait?).
Another interesting speculation by a researcher from Sicily is that he spotted clear signs of xanthelasma, the accumulation of cholesterol just under the skin around Mona Lisa's left eye as well as evidence of a lipoma, a fatty-tissue tumour, on her right hand.
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All in all, i enjoyed the exhibition but will only recommend to those who love arts especially art from the Renaissance era.
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