We hopped on the Motorbike today and zoomed to London.
Then parked up and changed from our leathers into jeans and jumped on a bus to Charing Cross.
We were up there to see the Da Vinci Milan Exhibition.
It was well worth it.
There were sketches on the most fragile looking pieces of paper some belong to the Queen and are on loan.
I love Leonardo's style of drawing because he shades with fine cross hatching and some of his light and shadow drawings are beautiful.
Of course there were paintings too including the 'new' discovery which is a painting of Jesus holding a glass globe.
For me the best exhibit is the copy of the Last supper which was hanging in the upstairs Gallery.
There was a huge life size print of the original painting which of course cant be transported because it is painted on a plaster wall. This is fading and flaking and sadly the worse for wear but hurray for the artist,he had a copy which he made on canvas and that was there in beautiful clear colours and completely intact.
There were also his preparatory sketches of various aspects of the painting.
I expect he did a lot more but the ones we saw were maybe all that survived.
I love art and especially Da vinci who's drawings were particularly realistic in an age where many painters will still making quite crude artwork.
There were not many mechanical drawings sadly but I suppose these were not particular to Milan.
Afterwards, we went to Pizza hut (another very rare treat) and had what was reportedly a Hawaiian(for me) and a farmhouse(OH) deep pan pizza of regular size.
Mine had absolutely no pineapple and the OH ended up with a chicken supreme.
We were hungry so we ate them anyway.
I think the waitress was Scandinavian and maybe misunderstood us, either that or we got someone else's order.
The base which was meant to be deep pan, seemed very light and bicarbonate of soda tasting.
Dear me, for nearly £9 each, we wont be hurrying back.
I can make a far more substantial pizza at home,twice the size with a real bread base for around £1.
Then parked up and changed from our leathers into jeans and jumped on a bus to Charing Cross.
We were up there to see the Da Vinci Milan Exhibition.
It was well worth it.
There were sketches on the most fragile looking pieces of paper some belong to the Queen and are on loan.
I love Leonardo's style of drawing because he shades with fine cross hatching and some of his light and shadow drawings are beautiful.
Of course there were paintings too including the 'new' discovery which is a painting of Jesus holding a glass globe.
For me the best exhibit is the copy of the Last supper which was hanging in the upstairs Gallery.
There was a huge life size print of the original painting which of course cant be transported because it is painted on a plaster wall. This is fading and flaking and sadly the worse for wear but hurray for the artist,he had a copy which he made on canvas and that was there in beautiful clear colours and completely intact.
There were also his preparatory sketches of various aspects of the painting.
I expect he did a lot more but the ones we saw were maybe all that survived.
I love art and especially Da vinci who's drawings were particularly realistic in an age where many painters will still making quite crude artwork.
There were not many mechanical drawings sadly but I suppose these were not particular to Milan.
Afterwards, we went to Pizza hut (another very rare treat) and had what was reportedly a Hawaiian(for me) and a farmhouse(OH) deep pan pizza of regular size.
Mine had absolutely no pineapple and the OH ended up with a chicken supreme.
We were hungry so we ate them anyway.
I think the waitress was Scandinavian and maybe misunderstood us, either that or we got someone else's order.
The base which was meant to be deep pan, seemed very light and bicarbonate of soda tasting.
Dear me, for nearly £9 each, we wont be hurrying back.
I can make a far more substantial pizza at home,twice the size with a real bread base for around £1.
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