Italian justice authorized Wednesday the loan of several works by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre. Among them is notably "The Man of Vitruvian", that an association of defense of the inheritance did not want to see leaving the Italian territory.
The administrative court of Veneto has rejected the appeal filed by the association Italia Nostra, saying that his request "was not sufficiently founded," said the court, paving the way for the loan of works to the Paris museum for a major exhibition devoted to the artist who opens on October 24th. The association believed that the exit of Italy from "The Man of Vitruvius" violated the Italian cultural property code,
"World Importance of Exposure"
The court argued that the choice of the Italian government to lend the works, under an agreement with France, proceeded from "the outstanding global significance of the exhibition, the aspiration of the country to maximize the potential its heritage "as well as" the value of cooperation and exchanges between States ".
Under the agreement signed in late September in Paris between the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Louvre, Rome will lend to the Paris museum five works by Leonardo da Vinci for this great exhibition commemorating the fifth centenary of the death of the master of the Renaissance.