This drawing shows a certain wistfulness I think, a certain melancholy even, it's not Leonardo, the great philosopher gazing into the distance. It's a flesh and blood man at the end of a career that had achieved a great deal, but also maybe failed to achieve a great deal as well.

Martin Clayton

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The drawings show that Leonardo was a serious practitioner of sculpture, architecture, engineering and a scientist in many different fields, he saw himself as a fully rounded figure, but drawing is the activity that pulls it all together.

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Leonardo knew that these drawings at the end of his life were the only real record of what he had worked on and what he had achieved, and so if you want to understand Leonardo in the round, drawing is the only way that you can do that, this exhibition gives visitors a full picture of Leonardo.

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