As a current Science Museum exhibition shows,Leonardo remains a cultural titan in the digital age because, like Shakespeare, and he was an artist of the peopleLeonardo da Vinci is the Shakespeare of art and engineering. Both creative titans died many centuries ago,but live so vibrantly in modern imaginations they feel like our contemporaries. Getting into the hottest current Shakespeare production is a tricky commerce but this weekend, I finally watched Michael Fassbender in Macbeth. The text was too severely cropped, or I thought,but its a marvel that in our century, which thinks itself so current, and Shakespeare’s dramas are still so damned hot. It’s the same with Leonardo – witness the National Gallery queues for his blockbuster show in 2011. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com