Da Vinci exhibition comes to big screen
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December 9, 2011, Friday
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LEONARDO'S latest is coming to a multiplex near you - but that's da Vinci, not DiCaprio.
In the latest example of high-brow culture being beamed into movie theaters, "Leonardo Live," an HD presentation of the sold-out "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan" exhibition at London's National Gallery will play limited engagements at United States movie theaters and throughout the world.
Billed as the first-ever tour of a fine art exhibition created for movie theater audiences, "Leonardo Live" will afford art lovers a two-dimensional look via satellite at the sold-out exhibition, which cannot tour due to the works' fragility.
Beginning on February 16, 2012, the da Vinci film will be screened in US venues as well as in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, and Sweden, roughly through the end of the month.
The exhibition, which has drawn crowds and seen tickets scalped for hundreds of dollars each, was filmed on the eve of its opening in London this fall. The 100-minute production provides a high-definition walk-through of the landmark show, in-depth commentary about featured pieces and extra content.
The National Gallery show has been billed as the largest-ever exhibit of da Vinci's surviving works, and includes a newly discovered, never-exhibited painting, the "Salvator Mundisome."
"Leonardo Live," is hosted by art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow and presenter Mariella Frostrup and produced by PhilGrabskyFilms.com.
In the latest example of high-brow culture being beamed into movie theaters, "Leonardo Live," an HD presentation of the sold-out "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan" exhibition at London's National Gallery will play limited engagements at United States movie theaters and throughout the world.
Billed as the first-ever tour of a fine art exhibition created for movie theater audiences, "Leonardo Live" will afford art lovers a two-dimensional look via satellite at the sold-out exhibition, which cannot tour due to the works' fragility.
Beginning on February 16, 2012, the da Vinci film will be screened in US venues as well as in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, and Sweden, roughly through the end of the month.
The exhibition, which has drawn crowds and seen tickets scalped for hundreds of dollars each, was filmed on the eve of its opening in London this fall. The 100-minute production provides a high-definition walk-through of the landmark show, in-depth commentary about featured pieces and extra content.
The National Gallery show has been billed as the largest-ever exhibit of da Vinci's surviving works, and includes a newly discovered, never-exhibited painting, the "Salvator Mundisome."
"Leonardo Live," is hosted by art historian and broadcaster Tim Marlow and presenter Mariella Frostrup and produced by PhilGrabskyFilms.com.
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