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October 16, 2019The Veneto Administrative Court today rejected Italia Nostra's appeal against the loan to the Louvre in Paris of Leonardo's works, including the Vitruvian Man kept at the Academy Galleries. The second section of the TAR established it, depositing the order after today's council chamber.

The motivations of the judges
The "identity character" of the Vitruvian Man in the list of the Academy Galleries "is not absolute and does not exclude the work from the loan". This was specified by the Veneto Regional Administrative Court in the order rejecting Italia Nostra's request against the loan. The administrative judges also recall that "in the past other works have been loaned abroad" including The Tempest by Giorgione, "Visions of the Beyond" by Bosch and the drawing by Michelangelo "The Fall of Fetonte".

Set precise precautions
The technical investigations carried out for the Vitruvian Man loan have concluded "that the critical issues can be considered solvable with precise caution on the handling, on the reduction of the number of days of exposure and with lighting conditions limited to 25 lux". The Tar of Veneto notes it, in the order. The decision to allow repeated and close exposure in the time of the work (in Venice from April 17th to July 14th 2019; in Paris from October 24th to December 14th), according to the judges "may eventually lead to respect the lux standards / hour cumulative per year to which the work can be exhibited, the subtraction from the view of the public of the same for a prolonged period, to allow it to rest in the dark ".

Franceschini: there is an agreement with Paris
"The Vitruvian Man loan to the Louvre is born of an agreement with Paris. There is the five hundredth anniversary of Leonardo and Raphael, with France we have said 'let's transform it into a great international event, we exchange works'. But the choices some museums have done the works to be loaned, we will certainly have done the Ministry ". This was stated by the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Dario Franceschini, regarding the controversy over the Vitruvian Man loan. "After everything was formalized with all the procedures - he added - there was an appeal to the TAR, and it is not the first time that I come across it. For my previous decisions there have been 14 judgments," he added, referring to the appointments of Museum Directors made with the previous government.