(24 Jan 2003)
1. Wide shot exterior Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. Close up banner on facade of building "Leonardo da Vinci"
3. Wide shot pan across exhibition space
4. Medium shot man looks at drawing
5. Close up, tilt up, drawing "Study of draperies"
6. Wide shot gallery
7. Medium shot painting "Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness"
8. Close up, tilt down, "Saint Jerome," shows drawing on the painting surface
9. SOUNDBITE: (English): Carmen Bambach, Curator:
"We should remember that Leonardo's drawings normally live in very dark boxes. Even the museums that own them only exhibit them for say ten weeks every number of years. To see this many drawings together is quite special. Most of them have not been seen together, and even those that have been seen in America, never in this great a number."
10. Medium shot man looking at drawing
11. Close up "study of the skull"
12. Close up writing on "study of the skull"
13. Close up drawing "anatomical male figure"
14. Close up drawing "anatomical male figure"
15. Medium shot engineering drawings
16. Close up drawing "a maritime assault mechanism"
17. Close up drawing "a device for bending beams"
18. Wide shot people looking at drawings
19. Medium shot people looking at drawings
20. SOUNDBITE: (English): Carmen Bambach, Curator:
"His multifaceted activity - for us to see him on the same sheet thinking about studies for the "Battle of Anghiari", say, then a little lower on the same sheet, another set of studies for the "Leda and the Swan" picture, then you look at the back of that same sheet and see a study of military engineering. This is a profoundly, profoundly, innovative artist, military engineer. It's extraordinary to see him jumping from thought to thought on the same page or on different pages."
21. Close up "study for the head of a soldier in the 'Battle of Anghiari'"
22. Close up "grotesque bust of a man in profile"
23. Close up "study of two heads of soldiers"
24. Medium shot woman looking at drawing
25. Close up detail of drawing "Head of the Virgin"
26. Medium shot Leonardo's writings on display
27. Medium shot Leonardo's writings on display
STORYLINE:
An exhibition exploring the vastness of Leonardo da Vinci's multifaceted career as artist, author, scientist, inventor and theorist through his drawings has opened at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The drawings cover the range of Leonardo's wide interests. In one, a horse rears - its muscular neck bulging, its mane flying. In another, a voluptuous woman kneels, with a swan's neck wrapped around her waist. Elsewhere cannonballs fly over a town's wall.
The three diverse subjects were all sketched by the same artist, Leonardo da Vinci, the one individual perhaps best known for embodying the term "Renaissance Man."
"Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman" brings together nearly 120 works from more than 25 public and private collections in Europe and North America, including Windsor Castle, the Louvre and the Vatican Museums. Many have never been seen before in the United States or been grouped together.
For the curator of the show Carmen Bambach, many works in the exhibit embody da Vinci's ability to tackle many subjects at once.
The exhibit is installed chronologically, beginning with da Vinci's apprenticeship and early artistic maturity in Florence in the 1470s through his final years in France, where he died in 1519.

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