Leonardo da Vinci

The Self-portrait, the only one recognized by the artist, is part, together with other twelve drawings signed by Leonardo da Vinci, of the precious collection of XV-XIX century Italian and foreign works of art of the Royal Library of Turin, acquired by King Carlo Alberto in 1839 from the antique dealer Giovanni Volpato.

Perhaps the world's most popular drawing, is the protagonist of an exhibition that brings for the first time in Rome the masterpiece of the artist's maturity, after a new diagnostic testing and a "non-invasive” intervention made by restorers of the ICRCPAL,  Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivistico e Librario di Roma.
Before finding themselves face to face with the historical portrait, in three sections of the exhibition, the visitors – caught by the hypnotic gaze and timeless of Leonardo – will have the chance to read like a novel the most important events of the life of the artist from Vinci, the controversial and fascinating events that accompanied the work over the centuries and the characteristics of the sanguigne technique used by Leonardo. The self-portrait is also narrated through three valuable audiovisual documents provided by Rai Teche and Istituto Luce.