500th anniversary of his death he's still considered the greatest painter of all time and yet perhaps only around 15 or so paintings of his have survived to this day this is extraordinary when you think of the influence he has had on the artistic world since then this important anniversary is being marked in many different ways throughout the world. leonardo di said pierre i would have been born an illegitimate child on april 15th 1452 in italy a tuscan polymath was a man a head of his time and his discoveries in art and science change the course of history and 500 years on the world is celebrating. digital onto a with the giants of the renaissance. was always a visionary. he anticipated things that were only invented years after his death.

i believe that if you were alive today he would have developed many of his inventions using digital techniques. and maybe he would have projected a new holographic flying machine into this or that more said about it like here at the fabric of delta poor a museum in milan leonardo da vinci 3 d. even let's visit his meet the man himself the immersive exhibit links the past with the present and gives a view is the opportunity to experience many of da vinci's creations all under one roof. the exhibition at the queen's gallery in london draws to get the threads of the renascence man's feverish curiosity these drawings gave davinci room to explore the universal laws he believed underpinned all of creation. the drawings show that leonardo was

a serious practitioner of sculpture architecture engineering. scientist in many different fields he saw himself as a fully rounded figure drawing is the activity that pulls it all together. the collection has been together since the artist's death and provides an insight into the masters in workings. weaving davinci this tapestry woven purely of silk with gold and silver thread is inspired by davinci is the last supper to mark the anniversary the vatican museum hosted a study day to coincide with the conclusion of a year and a half of restoration work on the 500 year old cloth we mean it was it's probably one of the earliest interpretations of the great last supper of leonardo in milan time and it to me. one of the earliest but it certainly wasn't the last the last supper is the most reproduced painting of all time. clowery

intervention italian artist daddio gum bought and took 8 hours ploughing lines and curves to complete the portrait the work measured 27 square kilometers but it didn't last long it was dug under a few days later. and are joined by the author of that revolt melissa holroyd 500 years after 500 years waters davinci most remember. his most remembered as an artist and also as an inventor as a scientist his work and anatomy was hundreds of years ahead of its time also what he has taught us in terms of flight yeah that was only really explored at the start of the last century he also asked very very important questions he asked why is the sky blue how does the heart work how did the valves in the heart work what is

a sneeze what is a your and why do we shiver when we're told there's no stopping the road and also because he was such an insatiable polymath he also told us a lot about the integration of these different disciplines and to think that this was all 500 years ago yeah ok but here we are 500 years ahead and there has been. discussion that he was such a genius that he maybe had a t.h.d. this attention deficit hyperactivity disorder what you think. i think he is it's the sure he frustrated a lot of people who commissioned him to do work he sometimes he took years to finish things sometimes he never finished things he even got you know got slack from the pope the pope got on his case he was employed for 3 years by the vatican and then after 3 years they said that's enough and the pope said of him alas this man will never do and never do anything for he begins by thinking of the end of the

work before the beginning so he was in that he was in the torrijos extensive plan a starting and not finishing he was also left handed and there's also evidence to suggest that he was dyslexic and both of these things are associated with 80 h.d. ok but despite all this frustration from people things don't get finished he did get loads of commissions that didn't because he was so good when he wasn't a rich man but he was constantly working and he was working on a huge of a of things from designing pageants to designing people's bathrooms as far as his inventions go some of that is disputed a fair amount of that is still disputed while his artistic work is well documented his some of his scientific stuff is not so well documented a german author mathias called he doubts whether he was responsible for all the inventions that are tributed to him and he also says that they didn't all work

there is a tank for example which functions by a crank and and echo says that the crank actually means that the wheels turn in the wrong direction ok so let's find out about this side more about this side of leonardo. as something that was brought to our tension in the 1920 s. i am rather infamous. it was in the early 20th century that the image of later nardo as inventor which he himself never claimed to be 1st emerged driven by benito mussolini to support his fascist ideology the dictator recast davinci as a universal genius and a leading figure every talian creative strength was done and was really initiated an exhibition not just initiated he ordered it to be and it was done and for that exhibition models were created from the vinci sketches for the 1st time. models

that simply ignored the errors in the original sketches the exhibition travelled from milan to the u.s. and then to japan where it was destroyed in an air raid i don't know how amazingly the exhibition was to go on mostly need is gone fascism is gone leonardo's cults the cult of leonardo the everything has remained mute this if enough leonardo is complete and that mythology continues to this day ringback. now melissa we don't know how many paintings is this i said 15 or so you think it could be 20 there's lots of discussion about that but he did have these books notebooks 7000 pages of drawings and inventions and all that stuff in his novels but really still love him as a painter yeah and still there is some doubt about some of those his famous painting the bottle monday has had a long history and for a long time it was lost and then it was found again and some experts doubt whether

it's a real division chief they sought the position of the city and they also saw the lack of landscape in the background some say it's probably from the division she workshop and the davinci might have had his hand in that he might have said he might have painted the hair or something but a real davinci no it's still sold at a whopping 4. $150000000.00 at auction maisie's i mean you name davinci just adds no stupid so the price of anything doesn't yeah it sure doesn't some experts say that that is partly because of the timing with davinci and things being able to be copied at the time that sort of has also contributed to how well we know him and his fame ok now let's have a look then at his most famous work of course we're talking about the priceless one the mona lisa. léonard davinci

spent more than 3 years painting portraits of the young woman art historians still don't know exactly who she wants. her contours are soft and undefined vinci called this technique. which means in the manner of smoke. her eyes seem to fall of the viewer her smile is but the slightest suggestion. for hands rest patiently one on top of the other they're not gossip picnic big division she's brilliant technique and his ability to contrast light and dark lend the peace life . mona lisa sits upright. you get the sense she's about to smile when you put all the opposite that she's closing her mouth we don't know her but one senses that she might want to say something new and communicate. the original is on show in paris france has been on permanent display at the luther museum for more than 200

years. and she's housed on the 1st floor in room 6 of the dead not only protect and i think pain of bullet proof glass. i don't know what if we measure. the mona lisa as the one painting in the louvre that everyone wants to see more sexual every day between 203-0000 sometimes 50000 people would come to see her or at least trying to see her. here. with 50000 visitors you have to be pretty patients try and get a close look up or ship to ship. her secrets smile is timeless and mona lisa has become a modern icon of western art her face never goes out of style. and she's got to be the most famous woman in the world have yet and people still don't know who she is exactly and why she was painted she has this mystical. secret aura

and i think that's part of the reason why she's so compelling of the people who use her images image advertisers and what have you i think they don't want us to find out the secret behind the mona lisa it's also a great image because there's an element of promise there it's like she's coming for she's not sort of coming forward and she's not really going back there is something in between that we're looking at the great to. be environmentalist here she is as mona lisa. i think they chose him because they probably think that his slot is a little bit like mine. but i think greatest lalas much sweeter than mine. ok melissa holroyd has been very interesting thank you very much for joining us and thank you for choosing into our special edition of arts and culture on a man who despite all the mess and questions about him is undoubtedly one of the greatest minds who ever graced this and i hope you'll be able to see an event or exhibition about him big or small wherever you are in the special anniversary yeah we leave you with mona lisa once again but with twists to the original go by.

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