Picture at Exhibition

Last week, when I was in Japan, I went to see Leonard Da Vinci’s works to Tokyo museum in Ueno.

I suppose it would be very busy because it was bank holiday and the second day of exhibition.
But queue was not long, only 10 minutes to enter the museum.

Thanks for Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code”, people starts to have interest in this master.
The works exhibited there was “Annunciation”, the scene come from the bible, Mother marry had encountered guardian angel Michelle who announce her that she would had a child of God.

This is the one of the earliest works of Leonard da Vinci. So somehow, renaissance flavor and medieval flavor were mixed up. That gave a strange feeling to audience, I believe.
Anyway, this works travel only two times abroad. If you miss this opportunity, you have to go Florence (Firenze in Italy) to see.

In the museum, first I saw was this work, I can hear a kind of announcement surrounding “Do not stop in front of the picture, but just walk slowly”.

Then next, I saw the sign showing “Exit”.

Exit! You kidding!!

But it was no joke, this exhibition consisted of only one works. I paid 1500yen (US$12.00 / 10.00EURO) for one picture. I had never come across such exhibition in my life!