Gabriella Lafferton and her family were greeted by Debrecen deputy mayor Zoltán Pajna and MODEM director Gábor Gulyás. Lafferton was presented with a weekend family pass to the city's Aquaticum water park and a bottle of Tokaj wine.
Ticket sales for the exhibition, entitled The Real da Vinci, have been on the rise since late September, said Gulyás.
Although Leonardo is commonly known as a "universal genius", the exhibitions dedicated to him have almost always focused on soma specific area of his activity: painting, anatomy, technology, studios on water, on flight, and so on. The Real da Vinci offers its visitors a different point of view, inviting them to explore the genius' very mode of thinking. The exhibition has been designed to present his unitary conception of knowledge as the effort to assimilate, through bold theoretical syntheses and inventive experiments, the laws that govern all of the wondrous operations of man and nature.
The Real da Vinci shows a mind tenaciously endeavoring to decipher the rational processes that animate the phenomena of the physical world as well as the "motions of thought", driven by the desire to achieve a perfect imitation of nature in the world of art.
Debrecen is the third stop for The Real da Vinci, which was shown in Florence last year and in the spring at the Japanese National Museum in Tokyo. The exhibition is open in Debrecen until December 2.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / www.azigazidavinci.hu
