Vancouver will celebrate the body in sport, as well as art, during the 2010 Winter Olympics next month.A rare collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings of the human body will be on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery from Feb. 6 to May 2. Admission is free during the 17 days of the Games (Feb. 12 to 28).
The exhibition marks the first time that the artist’s anatomical drawings, “Anatomical Manuscript A,” will be on view in their entirety since they were drawn in the early 1500s, said Ian M. Thom, a senior curator at the museum.
The drawings, which feature da Vinci’s unique mirror-image script, are on loan from the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
The museum is offering other free exhibits during the Games, including a show of contemporary art based on the human form and a survey of art from British Columbia. The gallery has also produced three major public art installations in downtown Vancouver.
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