I found a picture from about 7 or 8 years ago that I thought I would share today. It includes a masterpiece, and it is probably the closest I will ever get to the real thing. Let me explain.
About 5 or 10 miles away from where I work is the Cranbrook Institute of Science – Michigan’s Museum of Natural History. Like many of the other museums around our state, they will bring in some very cool traveling exhibits. The Da Vinci exhibit (Da Vinci Machines and Robotics) was there from mid 2018 to early 2019. The exhibit was about his studies in nature, anatomy, mechanics, flight, and robotics. It featured his flying machines, nautical, hydraulic and architectural innovations, groundbreaking applications of civil engineering, artwork, and incredible war machines.
I thought it would be neat to see, so I took the boys there to see it. What I didn’t know was that to see it, there was an additional charge to what we were already being charged to walk the rest of the museum. It was a bit pricey, and I asked the boys if they wanted to see it, and to my surprise, they were ok passing on it. We wound up going through the rest of the museum and having a good time anyway.
However, I could not pass up the opportunity to get a picture in front of one of the 15 high quality reproduction pieces of Da Vinci’s art. I mean, come on, it’s the Mona Lisa for crying out loud! It looked real enough to me!
And with that, I have to cue the Nat King Cole ….
Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian 