To the 500. Anniversary of the death of the Louvre, a great Show about Leonardo da Vinci’s work. However, many of his paintings are not to be seen. Here, the backgrounds are.
The “Mona Lisa” is on display in the Louvre. Many of Leonardo da Vinci’s pictures didn’t make it to the Show of the superlatives to Paris
Although Leonardo da Vinci are currently estimated to be only between 15 and 20 paintings, is the situation around the Paris retrospective of his 500. Date of death unclear. In the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci”, from 24. October until 24. February next year is to be seen in the Louvre, wanted to present the Museum with so many paintings of the universal geniuses as possible – it had but obviously not with the vehement rejection of conservators and other museums and political conflict, Chen expected.
Five paintings of Leonardo da Vinci (and his workshop), according to the Louvre already owned by the Museum. It has so many-Vinci-paintings like no other Museum. This Work will be issued in the context of the Show, the “Mona Lisa” remains, meanwhile, in the galleries of the permanent exhibition. With the attempt the entire work of the Italian born Renaissance painter who lived from 1452 to 1519, to collect have failed, the organizers, however.
On loan from St. Petersburg: “Madonna with flower”, also known as the “Madonna Benois”
Scientists appeal
The Uffizi gallery in Florence lend though copies of Da Vinci works, as well as the originals of his drawings to Paris, the painting “baptism of Christ”, “The Annunciation” and “adoration of the Magi” stay in Tuscany.
Although the ministries of Culture of Italy and France had decided after some Back and Forth, an agreement for the loan, charged a report in the magazine “der Spiegel”, according to art historians and restorers objection: The trip could endanger the works of art of Transport, as well as changes in the humidity threatened to damage the paintings. They feared it could replace pigments of the paintings.
“The Annunciation” had been set in 2009, already on a list of works of art, which should not only the country, but not once again leave the Museum. Also the “Madonna with the carnation” from the Alte Pinakothek in Munich had been awarded for conservational reasons, never. The many times in the past to be awarded the “lady with the ermine” from Krakow’s Czartoryski Museum is subject to a travel ban, since the painting belongs to the Polish state.
On loan from the Vatican: “Saint Jerome in the Wilderness”
The consequence of nationalism?
The competition among the international museums is large – and thus also of the countries and regions in which they are. The museums have an interest in, your greatest guess self-issue, because they act as magnet for millions of visitors. The “Washington Post” writes that the national Prestige limited in the face of a resurgence of nationalism, the willingness for items on loan: “A Leonardo exhibition without the large painting is only an Image of our time.”
Overall, the Louvre presents more than 160 exhibits, including 11 paintings, 70 drawings, manuscripts, sculptures and art objects from the works of painter, sculptor, engineer, architect and philosopher, da Vinci, and also the Work of his students. The works come from the London national gallery, the British Museum, the Vatican Pinacoteca, the Italian national gallery in Parma and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Court won: The drawing of the Vitruvian man travels to Paris
The Vitruvian man is allowed to travel
The curators in Paris were able to schedule on short notice, even da Vinci’s famous drawing of the Vitruvian man, created around 1490. The loan was pre-agreed for a long time with Italy, but the monument protection Association “Italia Nostra” obtained a preliminary injunction: As important cultural assets such as the “Vitruvian man” are not likely to go out of the country, the Association. The administrative court of Region Veneto rejected the claim finally.
Without the paintings, the exhibition in Paris has to do. The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, lent to the Louvre “Madonna Benois”, a painting that is very adept rarely travel. The Vatican lent is also an unfinished painting of da Vinci’s “Saint Jerome in the Wilderness”.
Where is the Savior?
The remains never-ending story of the “Salvator Mundi”, the “Savior of the world” and her most expensive paintings. 2017 image to around 450 million US had been auctioned in dollars, allegedly on behalf of the Saudi crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi arranged rule. First of all, it was said, the “saving” will be issued in shortly after the auction opened, the Louvre Abu Dhabi. But the Event was cancelled, without notice, and the painting no longer publicly seen. Least of all could it have life on a luxury yacht on the world, or in a vault in Switzerland, banished to the seas – as is speculated – at least in a Museum.
Who painted it? “Salvator Mundi”, the most expensive painting in the world
It is said that the curators wanted to have the painting for the Paris exhibition, but have reserved the right to decide for themselves about the information on the chalkboard next to the image. This, in turn, would hit a sore spot, the delicate question of the authorship of the image: whether the work really comes from Leonardo da Vinci, or rather of one of his students, there is today disagreement.
The Louvre is not able to solve mystery of “Salvator Mundi”
On the information Board next to the picture probably would have been an assessment of the: Dignity of the Louvre as the owner of the “Mona Lisa” and the authority of the art world, the “Salvator Mundi” as a genuine da Vinci exhibit, would have done the discussion on the authorship of the image well. The Museum should represent the point of view, the controversial image came only from Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop, would materialize the value of the work in the Nu atom. And which owner would expose themselves to this risk, without Adversity?
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Big Leonardo da Vinci exhibition in the Louvre
The most expensive painting in the world of the Public sphere remains so hidden. Or is it not? Shortly before the opening, there was – as it should be for a true art-crime – and- rumors: The “Salvator” could possibly turn up in the Louvre, the Museum of news. After all, a Version of the Savior, there is definitely the exhibition to see: According to the catalog it was under the guidance of Leonardo da Vinci by one of his students made.
Louvre is “Leonardo-Hype”
The preparations for the Show were also difficult, it will pay off for the Louvre Museum is probably The Museum expects that every day 5,000 to 7,000 visitors came to the exhibition on Leonardo da Vinci’s wish to see work. Prior to the opening of more than 180,000 Tickets were sold online.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesMona Lisa
The most famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci from the high phase of the Italian Renaissance, hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The year of its completion is unclear, as is the true identity of the Lisa: The Florentinerin Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of cloth and silk merchant Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, is regarded as the hot candidate – many art historians doubt the but.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesSalvator Mundi
For the record sum of $ 450 million in 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s work at the auction house Christie’s auction for the saudi Arabian crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. About 1500 originated, it is one of the less than 20 surviving paintings by the master. In 1958, the factory had changed for only $ 60 to the owner – in the Belief that it was not an Original. The authenticity is still controversial.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesJohn the Baptist
John the Baptist, recognizes Jesus in the New Testament as the Messiah and his forerunner, depends also in the Louvre. His joy is an expression of his knowledge. Leonardo stood between 1513 and 1515 in the services of the Vatican, probably Pope Leo x gave him the order for the image to da Vinci’s last Painting could be.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesThe Lord’s Supper
Not the Mona Lisa, but the Lord’s supper on the North wall of the dining hall of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, is considered the culmination of the creative work of Leonardo da Vinci’s. It has been restored, because the applied secco painting from the end of the 15. Century is in comparison to the damp plaster painted frescoes less durable. The sacrament is a world heritage site.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesMadonna with the spindle
The Original image is not preserved, however, there are two copies, derived from Leonardo’s pupils: A picture is part of a New York private collection, the other was stolen in 2003 from Scotland’s Drumlanrig Castle. In 2007, it emerged during a RAID, today it hangs in the Scottish national gallery. Although it is not an Original, was its value at the time of 40 million euros.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesSelf-portrait
In the case of 500-year-old works of art, doubts as to their authenticity is part of it: The self-portrait, in the possession of the Royal library in Turin, neither the authorship nor the identity of the depicted Person as a secured. The year of creation of the sanguine could be, according to experts, far behind da Vinci’s death. Whether the master would probably be laughing about all the discussions?
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesAir screw
Finally, the universal genius made less from painting than from other Sciences: To designed architecture, biology, engineering, and anatomy, da Vinci sketches, his research, his energy should have been the urge is sometimes in the way. The shown here is a sketch of a flying machine, the Helix Pteron, is a forerunner of the helicopter. For the implementation of the materials were missing him.
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Da Vinci’s MasterpiecesThe Vitruvian man
His inventive spirit is probably one of the reasons why there are so few paintings by da Vinci: He came so often to Paint. This sketch is based on the representation of the ancient architect Vitruvius from the man with idealized proportions. He is regarded as a Symbol for symmetry, beauty, and body awareness, and most of the German carry it with them every day – on your health insurance card.