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The presence in the exhibition of a carefully selected group
                                                              of works painted by pupils and followers of Leonardo
                                                              offers a unique opportunity to publicly present the results
                                                              of the most recent research on the artist’s closest circle
         LEONARDO AND THE                                     and to analyse teaching methods and the production of
                                                              paintings in the context of Italian studios in the late 15th
         COPY OF THE MONA                                     and early 16th centuries.
         LISA. NEW APPROACHES
         TO THE ARTIST’S STUDIO                               Since the presentation of the research on the copy of the
         PRACTICES                                            Mona Lisa in the Museo Nacional del Prado, the painting

         Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid 9/28/2021 - 1/23/2022   has been included in most catalogues and research
                                                              projects on Leonardo and his collaborators. Stimulated
                                                              by the studies that accompanied the exhibition La Sainte
                                                              Anne, l’ultime chef-d’oeuvre de Léonard de Vinci (Musée
         THE EXHIBITION                                       du Louvre, 2012) and those presented at some of the
                                                              events organised to mark Leonardo year in 2019, the most
         Curated by Ana González Mozo, Senior Technician of   recent analyses of the drawings, treatises and pictorial
         Museums in the Museum’s Conservation Department,     technique of the master and his closest circle have helped
         Leonardo and the copy of the Mona Lisa. New approaches   to increase understanding of both Leonardo’s pictorial
         to the artist’s studio practices is the result of an ambitious   thinking and the works produced in the context of his
         research project which the Prado undertook in parallel and   studio.
         in collaboration with other international institutions, such as
         the Musée du Louvre, the Molecular Archaeology Laboratory   Structured around the Prado copy of the Mona Lisa and
         at the Sorbonne and the National Gallery, London.    the information derived from the technical images made












































         Leda After Leonardo da Vinci Tempera on panel, 115 x 86 cm 1510–20 Rome,   The Young Saviour Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1466/67–1516)
         Galleria Borghese                                    Oil on panel, 25.3 x 18.5 cm c. 1490–95 Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano

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