Search results

Start typing

This exhibition is in the past. View our current exhibitions.

Ideal male heads

Two standard male types recur repeatedly in Leonardo’s drawings and paintings – an adolescent with delicate, refined features, and an older man with aquiline nose, prominent chin and beetling brow. In the last decade of his life Leonardo produced a number of independent drawings of such heads, exercises in form and draughtsmanship simply for his own satisfaction.


The income from your ticket contributes directly to The Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity. The aims of The Royal Collection Trust are the care and conservation of the Royal Collection, and the promotion of access and enjoyment through exhibitions, publications, loans and educational activities.