Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition TourFriday 13 - Sunday 15 January 2012

The highlight of the weekend will be a visit to the “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at theCourt of Milan” Exhibition at the National Gallery. The exhibition is the most com-plete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. This unprecedentedexhibition – the first of its kind anywhere in the world – brings together sensationalinternational loans never before seen in the UK. Inspired by the recently restoredNational Gallery painting “The Virgin of the Rocks”, this exhibition focuses onLeonardo as an artist. In particular it concentrates on the work he produced as courtpainter to Duke Lodovico Sforza in Milan in the late 1480s and 1490s.

We travel from Northwich and Chester by coach and stay at the Holiday Inn RegentsPark for 2 nights (B&B). Art historian Adrian Sumner will accompany us to explainthe exhibitions we visit.

Friday 13 January - coach travel to London, and visit the “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan”exhibition at the National Gallery (timed entry ticket included in tour price).

Saturday 14 January - Visit the British Museum where Grayson Perry curates an installation of his new worksalongside objects made by unknown men and women throughout history from the British Museum’s collection.We then visit Lord Leighton’s House. The house was the former home and studio of the leading Victorian artist,built to designs by George Aitchison. The Arab Hall is the centrepiece of the house. Designed to displayLeighton's priceless collection of over a thousand Islamic tiles, mostly brought back from Damascus in Syria,the interior evokes a compelling vision of the Orient. The opulence continues through the other richly decoratedinteriors, with gilded ceilings and walls lined with peacock blue tiles by the ceramic artist William De Morgan.On the first floor is Leighton's grand painting studio with its great north window, dome and apse. Finally wevisit Tate Britain, with a special exhibition of visionary, eccentric, populist and epic, John Martin. He was acontroversial but key figure in nineteenth century art.

Sunday 15 January - Imperial War Museum. Two main art galleries feature collections of outstanding modernBritish art. Works by some of Britain’s most significant artists are displayed alongside more contemporaryworks and recent acquisitions. Plus Shaped by War - photographs by Don McCullin. Then travel home, arrivingCheshire in the early evening.

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