Well he’s not literally coming to Birmingham, that would be absurd, but some of his greatest works are!
Ten of Leonardo da Vinci’s finest drawings in the Royal collection are touring the UK. They have been selected to reflect Leonardo’s use of different media and the extraordinary range of his activities: painting and sculpture, engineering, botany, mapmaking, hydraulics and anatomy. 
The exhibition includes designs for chariots fitted with flailing clubs, a study of the head of Leda, a drawing of oak leaves, a double-sided sheet of anatomical sketches, a design for a scheme to drain marshland, a view of a river from a window, a costume study of a man on horseback, drawings of apocalyptic scenes, and a rough study of an old man in profile, one of the last drawings made by the artist.
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is the first UK venue to show this exhibition.
Through drawing Leonardo attempted to record and understand the world around him. He maintained that an image transmitted knowledge more accurately and concisely than any words, although some of his drawings are extensively annotated. Leonardo was left-handed, and throughout his life he habitually wrote his personal notes in mirror-image from right to left (although he wrote in the conventional manner when the text was intended for some other reader). This was not an attempt to keep his investigations secret, as has been claimed, but probably a childhood trick that he never abandoned.
Beyond a handful of paintings, most of Leonardo’s great projects were never completed. His surviving drawings are therefore our main source of knowledge of his extraordinary achievements. According to Martin Clayton, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Royal Collection,
‘we can often grasp the true nature of Leonardo’s intentions only through his drawings’.
If you ever wondered what Da Vinci looked like we have, below, inserted the most realistic picture ever drawn of him.
Hatters Hostel Birmingham is just a 10 minute stroll away from Birmingham’s Art Museum. You can return to us anytime to enjoy the FREE tea and coffee, FREE breakfast, FREE Wi-Fi and FREE fun factor. You can return safe in the knowledge that you are staying at one of the best hostels in the country.
So what you waiting for….book now to come to Brum and see the works of the one of the world’s greatest ever talents.
