Leonardo da Vinci: Singular and Plural

Leonardo worked on a surprisingly small number of works — the Mona Lisa among them — refining and altering them over years. This method created a production bottleneck that could only be dealt with through delegating, leaving us with the problem of how we distinguish a fully autograph product from a painting made in the workshop. This lecture by Luke Syson (organizer of the triumphant exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, at London’s National Gallery) explores artistic production, collaboration and delegation, and will track Leonardo’s personal journey from a solitary artist to a collaborator working with pupils, assistants and peers, and back.