Leonardo da Vinci's so-called self-portrait on display in Turin.

Starting today, July 7, the celebrated drawing known as Leonardo da Vinci ’sSelf-Portrait ( the identification does not meet with unanimous opinions from critics) is once again on public display: it will be possible to admire it at the Royal Library of Turin until September 15. The exhibition is titled Around Leonardo. Drawings from the Renaissance to the Royal Museums and will be held right at the Royal Library. Leonardo ’s drawing will be exhibited together with about forty other drawings from the Royal Collections of Turin by Renaissance artists (15th and 16th centuries): these are the ones Giorgio Vasari mentions in his Lives and takes as examples of the highest levels reached in the art of drawing, which Vasari calls “the father of our three arts, architecture, sculpture and painting.” Moreover, in the collections of the Royal Library there are two ancient editions of the Lives: one printed in Florence by Lorenzo Torrentino in 1550 and a print of the Giuntina edition (the 1568 one) dating back to 1759 and produced in Rome.

The exhibition will thus feature works by the greatest artists of the 15th and 16th centuries: we will be able to see an early sheet by Raphael, a study by Michelangelo for the face of the Cumaean Sibyl in the Sistine Chapel, a rare drawing by Lorenzo Lotto, and even works by Parmigianino, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Marco Zoppo, Andrea Schiavone and others. The exhibition is divided on the basis of both time and geography-a very interesting journey among the greats of Renaissance art, all conducted through drawing.

Can be visited during the opening hours of the Royal Library. Info at www.museireali.beniculturali.it.

Image: Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of a Man Known as Self-Portrait (c. 1515; sanguine on paper, 33.5 × 21.6 cm; Turin, Biblioteca Reale)

Leonardo da Vinci's so-called self-portrait on display in Turin.

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