Leonardo and Andy Warhol together in Milan, at the Crypt of San Sepolcro

From March 1 to June 30, 2019, the Crypt of San Sepolcro in Milan will host the project Leonardo & Warhol in Milan. The genius experience, an initiative curated by Giuseppe Frangi, the brainchild of Gruppo MilanoCard, manager of the Crypt of San Sepolcro, in co-production with the Veneranda Pinacoteca e Biblioteca Ambrosiana and Credito Valtellinese. It is a long journey through time, from the Milan of the 15th century to the vertical Milan of today: a six-century itinerary with the guidance of Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 - Amboise, 1519) and Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, 1928 - New York, 1987), two protagonists of their respective eras who had in Milan their meeting point, albeit four centuries apart.

The exhibition route starts in the Sottofedericiana room of the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana and opens with a multimedia installation that, through highly suggestive images, will guide the visitor through the Milan lived, designed and imagined by Leonardo da Vinci to lead him to the vision of Andy Warhol’s The Last Supper, the work with which in 1986 the father of Pop Art reinterpreted Leonardo’s masterpiece.

Leonardo & Warhol in Milan. The genius experience promises to be a journey punctuated by themes that Leonardo’s visionary mind anticipated and that have marked the history and development of Milan. The itinerary will narrate the use of water, the relationship with the land and nature, technological and architectural innovation that led to the Milan of skyscrapers and the Vertical Forest. In Milan, Leonardo invented a new way of looking at the world with his painting, with a capacity for observation that opened roads to the development of science. But there will also be the Milan of music and the Milan of solidarity foreshadowed by the table of the LastSupper, which lands at the table of the Refettorio Ambrosiano and the unveiling of Warhol’s work Then, passing along the Leonardo corridor, the route will close in the crypt of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a place to which Leonardo was very attached and which in a map of the Codex Atlanticus, he indicated as the true center of Milan. The crypt, whose restoration will soon be completed, is an extraordinary artistic and archaeological monument in the heart of ancient Milan.

Tours are open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets: full 12 euros, reduced 10 euros. For info, visit www.thegeniusexperience.it.

Image: Andy Warhol, The last supper (1986; Creval collection)

Leonardo and Andy Warhol together in Milan, at the Crypt of San Sepolcro

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