Art critic takes in the room as a painting by Leonardo da Vinci's '' the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani '', (The Lady with an ermine) see on display as part of the exhibit '' Leonardo da Vinci: the painter at the Court of Milan '' at the National Gallery in London, November 7, 2011.
LONDON (Reuters)-moved George Clooney. Lady Gaga? So yesterday. New celebrities in town is the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, the main subject of the exhibition at London's National Gallery that has produced the blockbuster Hollywood hype.
Critics have fallen over themselves to find superlatives to describe the "Leonardo da Vinci: the painter at the Court of Milan", which collects nine only 15 or 16 painting master paintings there.
Missing is arguably the most famous of all–"Mona Lisa" at the Louvre in Paris and the "last supper" mural in Milan which could not be moved anyway.
But the National Gallery is still convinced that the collection, including loans from all over the world, representing "the most complete view of the rare surviving painting of Leonardo ever held."