From December 10, 2023 to April 14, 2024, the "Dialogue with Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance and Oriental Aesthetics Special Exhibition", co-curated by Chinese and Italian curators, will be exhibited at the Shanghai Museum.
The exhibition will also present masterpieces of Renaissance art such as Leonardo da Vinci's original oil painting "Woman with Flowing Hair", a number of manuscripts of the Atlantic Codex, Michelangelo's precious drawings, as well as masterpieces of ancient Chinese painting such as "Gate Disc Car" of the Five Dynasties, Liang Kai of the Southern Song Dynasty, and "Fan of the Autumn Wind" by Tang Bohu of the Four Ming Dynasties. It can be said that the word "dialogue" runs through the whole exhibition.
Exhibition viewThe most important exhibit in this exhibition is Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Woman with Flowing Hair", which is also arranged in the most ** exhibition hall and has an exclusive space.
Leonardo da Vinci's "Woman with Flowing Hair".
Exhibition viewThe painting "Woman with Flowing Hair" is housed in an old golden frame, and the work itself is the size of a book, but it is precious enough to lead such an exhibition of East-West art dialogue. There are no more than 20 authentic oil paintings of Leonardo da Vinci recognized worldwide, and "Woman with Flowing Hair" is also the only authentic oil painting of Leonardo da Vinci that has been allowed to leave the country.
Ling Lizhong, director of calligraphy and painting at the Shanghai Museum, believes that the dialogue with "The Woman with Flowing Hair" should be the first to recommend Tang Yin (Tang Bohu's) "Autumn Wind Fan" in the collection of the Shanghai Museum.
Tang Yin's "Autumn Wind Fan Picture".Both works belong to the same era and both depict women. Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance were in the fifteenth century, also during the Ming dynasty in China. In the fifteenth century, the center of Western culture and art was in Florence, and in the far east, the center of culture and art was in the Wumen area, and the "Four Ming Families" were born, and Tang Yin was the representative figure.
Ling Lizhong said that although the two artists did not know each other during their lifetimes, today we have witnessed the "mutual expectation" of the two works, and some people even joked: "Tang Bohu's 'autumn wind' makes da Vinci's woman's hair flow."
Leonardo da Vinci's "Woman with Flowing Hair".Ling Li went on to say that some scholars believe that "The Woman with Flowing Hair" is a sketch before da Vinci painted "Madonna of the Rocks", but more and more scholars believe that this is a painting method that da Vinci deliberately pursued at that time: elegant, line-based, leaving a lot of blank space, ups and downs, and has an oriental charm. This echoes the transformation of painting style from realism to freehand in the Ming Dynasty.
Similar conversations are everywhere in the exhibition. For example, Shen Zhou's "Picture Page of the Rainbow Bridge" in the Ming Dynasty corresponds to the design scheme of the bridge in Leonardo da Vinci's manuscript.
Ming Shen Zhou, "Picture Page of the Rainbow Bridge".
The dialogue between Shen Zhou's hanging rainbow bridge and Leonardo da Vinci's military bridgeThe depiction of horses in Zhao Yong's "Long Pine Horse Scroll" in the Yuan Dynasty corresponds to da Vinci's scientific analysis of horses.
(Biography) Yuan Zhao Yong "Chang Pine System Matu Axis".
Zhao Yong's horse contrasts with da Vinci's horseDu Jian's "Lady Scroll" of the Ming Dynasty vividly depicts the scene of "painter's portrait", which can be used in dialogue with Renaissance portraits such as the "Mona Lisa".
Ming Du Jin "Lady Picture Scroll".
Ming Du Jin "Lady Picture Scroll" partTang Yin's "Crane Scroll" depicts the scene of the doctor Wang Guan in the middle of the mountains and rivers and watching the cranes, which is Tang Yin's "alias map" (Wang Guan, the crane) customized for Wang Guan, which can have a dialogue with da Vinci's portrait of Cecilia, "The Girl with a Silver Mink".
Ming Tang Yin, "Crane Picture Scroll".
Ming Tang Yin, "Crane Picture Scroll" partOn display is Liang Kai's Portrait of a Daojun in the Southern Song Dynasty, which at that time was often the base of a large mural painting, which corresponds to Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and manuscripts, as well as Michelangelo's sketch Legs, which is a draft of a large sculpture.
Southern Song Dynasty Liang Kai "White Portrait of Daojun".
Michelangelo sketches "Legs".The design of the exhibition hall of the "Dialogue with Leonardo da Vinci" exhibition also reflects the ingenuity of the dialogue between the East and the West.
On the central axis of the exhibition hall, 18 exhibits from the Italian side are exhibited, and 18 ancient paintings from Shangbo form a rectangular peripheral circulation line around the central axis. The curatorial team did not "force" the Eastern and Western works to be displayed side by side, but through the porch and plum blossom window lattice, they formed a kind of echo and comprehension of each other.
Exhibition viewChu Xiaobo, director of the Shanghai Museum, said that we have adopted a unique dialogue method to take everyone into a wonderful journey across time and space and beyond imagination from two perspectives. Here, the audience can appreciate the artistic expressions of the East and the West in the same era but completely different, and appreciate the artistic styles of the East and the West that span thousands of years in different eras but are similar.