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What’s the recipe for a Leonardo da Vinci drawing? Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection

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Posted by administrator on March 31, 2016     Permalink     Comments (1)

How did Leonardo da Vinci go about creating the exceptional drawings currently on show at the Laing Art Gallery, lent from the Royal Collection? One of Leonardo’s main drawing materials was ink, used with a quill pen. The fluidity of… Read more

Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, star of the Renaissance, at the Laing Art Gallery

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Posted by administrator on January 8, 2016     Permalink     Comments (1)

Leonardo da Vinci was a handsome man – the early accounts all comment on his good looks. He was also amazingly talented – only Michelangelo challenged him for supremacy in painting and drawing. In addition to his artistic achievements, Leonardo… Read more

A North-East Artist in the Trenches in World War 1

Art   Exhibitions   Laing Art Gallery   Social History   World War 1
Posted by administrator on July 21, 2014     Permalink     Comments (3)

This view of soldiers in a trench on the Somme battlefront around Péronne was drawn by Victor Noble Rainbird, a local artist who fought with various battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers during the First World War. His sketch shows a… Read more