Exhibition "Ingenuity at the service of power. The codices of Leonardo da Vinci in the Austrian court"

Until on May 16 in the temporary exhibition hall of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando 

Ingenuity at the service of power tells a fascinating and little-known story: the presence in Spain between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries of most of the manuscripts written by Leonardo da Vinci. Not only the two Madrid Codices, which today are one of the treasures of the National Library of Spain, but almost all those that are preserved in the best museums in the world, in addition to the approximately twenty that disappeared.

Based on this common thread, the exhibition vindicates the importance of science and the transmission of knowledge in the Spain of the Habsburgs, and presents a Madrid that was a fundamental focus of knowledge at the time.

FREE GUIDED TOURS

The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive program of guided tours, intended for adult audiences, to bring closer the time when Madrid, seat of the Austrian court, was also the center of scientific and technical knowledge.

These guided visits to the exhibition will require prior registration in: Reservation Center of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage

Guided tours are free, so there is no increase in the price of admission

Entrance fee to the exhibition: €2, with exceptions.

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