Italia Nostra: "Can the Vitruvian Man go to the Louvre? It has lost protection today."

Here come the first comments from Italia Nostra after the ruling of the Veneto Regional Administrative Court (TAR), which rejected the association’s appeal against the loan of theVitruvian Man to the Louvre and thus ruled that Leonardo da Vinci ’s drawing will be allowed to travel to France for the exhibition that will open in the great Paris museum in a few days.

“As for the reasons,” Italia Nostra president Mariarita Signorini said in a note, “the TAR held that since the previous director of the Gallerie dellAccademia, Dr. Marini, did not absolutely and peremptorily exclude the loan of the Vitruvian Man, its inclusion in the main fund does not constitute a ban on the loan. In addition, the TAR considers the expert opinions of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence and the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro in Rome to be more relevant than the more precautionary remarks previously made by the head of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe delle Gallerie dellAccademia and the Conservative Restoration Officer.”

“If being listed as belonging to the main collection of a gallery or museum fails to prevent the repatriation of an identity work, and if the indications of the restorers and conservators are all questionable,” Signorini concludes, “then today is not a good day for protection in Italy. Italia Nostra will not give up and will not stop because it considers it a victory to have resolutely and courageously raised the unresolved issue of loans and travel of priceless works of art held in our museums.”

Italia Nostra: "Can the Vitruvian Man go to the Louvre? It has lost protection today."

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