woZZon Review: After much anticipation, and some small controversy over ticket limits, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, finally opens at the National Gallery. While numerous exhibitions have looked at Leonardo da Vinci as an inventor, scientist or draughtsman, this is the first to be dedicated to his aims and techniques as a painter. Inspired by the recently restored National Gallery painting, The Virgin of the Rocks, this exhibition focuses on Leonardo as someone who aimed to convince viewers of the reality of what they were seeing, while still aspiring to create ideals of beauty and mystery, in his exquisite portraits and awe-inspiring religious works. Further proof, if any were needed, of the spectacular nature, of anything that the great man turned his hand to.