Currently, a Venice district court is suspending the loan from the "Belarusian man" to the Louvre to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death. The court accepted a petition from the Cultural Protection Association Italia Nostra, which objected to Leonardo's famous drawing to France.
Image: Leonardo da Vinci, The Vitruvian Man, c. 1490, Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice
Currently, a Venice district court is suspending the loan from the "Belarusian man" to the Louvre to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death. The court accepted a petition from the Cultural Protection Association Italia Nostra, which objected to Leonardo's famous drawing to France.
The Administrative Court will not finalize the loan decision until October 16. Only on September 24 had the Italian Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini agreed with his French counterpart Franck Riester on loan.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Vitruvian Man, c. 1490, Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice
Given the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, "The Vitruvian Man" should have been lent out to the Louvre for eight months. The drawing of Leonardo, which can be seen on Italy's coins with a euro, should have been displayed in the Louvre at an exhibition which opened on October 24. For this, Italy should have had some Raffael works exhibited in the Louvre, to be displayed in the exhibition complex "Scuderie del Quirinale" in Rome from March 2020.