The Speed is thrilled to be one of only four museums in the United States to house this amazing exhibition, along with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition will present 35 masterpieces selected from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum including a hand written notebook of the most famous Renaissance artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Other works in the exhibition include rare, small-scale religious and secular artifacts including medieval ivories, precious jeweled goldsmith’s works, stained glass, and Renaissance bronzes highly prized for their beauty, the value of their materials and for the exquisite workmanship that went into their creation. This exhibition is rich in exquisite and unique ivories, among them the carved front cover of the Lorsch Gospels made for the court of Charlemagne, a rare carved ivory holy water bucket probably presented to the Ottonian Emperor in 980 and the only known Byzantine ivory statuette of the Virgin and Child carved entirely in the round. A national leader in arts education, serving over 30,000 children each year, the Speed Art Museum has repeatedly been voted Kentucky’s best museum and is considered one of the top ten sites each Kentuckian should visit. Anecdotes , Art Quiz , Education , Mythology , 3D Images , Last Week . read more

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