The exhibition \u00abLeonardo in France. The Master and his Pupils\u00a0500 years after crossing the Alps. 1516-2016\u00bb was opened on 21 September at the Italian Embassy in Paris at the presence of the Italian Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, and of the French Minister of Culture and Communications, Audrey Azoulay. The exhibition was organised under the High Patronage of the Presidents of the Republic of Italy and France. Admission to the exhibition, which is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. until 20 November, is free of charge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The event, organised in partnership with the Louvre Museum and with Italy\u2019s major museums, falls within the framework of the actions of Italy\u2019s cultural diplomacy for the promotion of its artistic heritage and is an expression of the commitment to valorise Italy\u2019s and France\u2019s common culture at European level.<\/p>\n
The exhibition celebrates the anniversary of the world-renowned Master\u2019s arrival in France and offers to the French and international public the most emblematic works by Leonardo and his pupils.<\/p>\n
The exhibition juxtaposes works by Leonardo da Vinci and by his closest apprentices (Francesco Melzi, who followed him to France, and Gian Giacomo Caprotti, better known as Salai, who went to Amboise during Leonardo\u2019s permanence in France), and displays Leonardo\u2019s masterpieces \u201cHead of a Woman\u201d, also known as \u201cLa Scapigliata\u201d, from the Gallery of Parma (in the Pilotta Monumental Complex), in an itinerary showing references to the three paintings that Leonardo brought to France (the Mona Lisa, St. John the Baptist, St. Anne).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition, on the basis of unpublished studies by the Louvre and original documents, the exhibition retraces Leonardo\u2019s steps from Rome to Amboise, crossing the Alps through the Moncenisio Pass.<\/p>\n
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