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Photo: The National Gallery, London / Musée du Louvre, Paris |
The end of year round ups of the best and not so best of everything continues this time for the best exhibits of 2011. The Telagraph's Richard Dorment insists it was Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery, but there were also others that held their own:
The show of the year? Easy. Everyone associated with The National Gallery’s Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan deserves congratulation beginning with the curator Luke Syson and the director Nicholas Penny. But I’d also like to single out conservator Larry Keith, whose sensitive cleaning of the National Gallery’s Virgin of the Rocks was a primary incentive for doing the show in the first place. Before Keith’s judicious restoration, the picture was thought to have been painted in large part by Leonardo’s assistants. But no one who saw it hanging opposite the Louvre version could doubt that it is by the hand of Leonardo himself.[Telegraph]
