Vitruvian man at the Louvre? The Galleries of the Academy: "Opportunity for an enhancement project."

The trip of Leonardo da Vinci ’sVitruvian Man to France, for the major exhibition at the Louvre that will open at the end of October, will be an opportunity for the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, the museum that holds the drawing, to launch a valorization project on the work. This is directly announced by the institute, which speaks of an “important opportunity of collaboration for the Gallerie dell’Accademia of Venice with one of the most prestigious museums in the world”: in the wake of the interest that the loan has aroused, the museum intends to launch “an unprecedented operation of valorization of the drawing, which has now become an identity symbol of the Italian cultural heritage.”

The first objective of this project, says the director of the Galleries, Giulio Manieri Elia, “will be to incentivize the necessary controls in order to protect the rights due to the State on the commercial use of the image. Then to envisage, in the museum’s new layout, the creation of a multimedia station dedicated to an in-depth historical-artistic study of the work with mostly unpublished or little-known details and curiosities, which will make it possible to partially overcome the difficulties related to its discontinuous display, due to reasons of conservation of the drawing.”

This will then perhaps be followed by an exhibition that will be dedicated, Manieri Elia further states, "to the analysis and critical presentation of the evolution of the extraordinary universal fortune of theVitruvian Man, which has become, despite its limited visibility, a true pop icon in the collective imagination." Predictably, critics will now wonder if this could not have been done even without theVitruvian Man going on loan to the Louvre.

Pictured: Leonardo da Vinci, The Proportions of the Human Body According to Vitruvius - “Vitruvian Man,” detail (c. 1490; metal point, pen and ink, touches of watercolor on white paper, 34.4 x 24.5 cm; Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia)

Vitruvian man at the Louvre? The Galleries of the Academy: "Opportunity for an enhancement project."

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