SOURCE: NYT
12-27-2018
tags: France, Italy, art, Leonardo da Vinci, populism
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12-27-2018
For Italy’s Populists, Everything Is a Nationalist Cause. Even Leonardo.
Breaking Newstags: France, Italy, art, Leonardo da Vinci, populism
In a small showroom filled with replicas of Leonardo da Vinci masterpieces, Lucia Borgonzoni, Italy’s under secretary for culture and a member of the right-wing League party, attested to the authenticity of her disgust with the French.
She accused France of trying to culturally appropriate Leonardo for a 2019 exhibition at the Louvre celebrating the 500th anniversary of his death. And that was just the beginning.
France had treated Italy with “a lack of respect” and like a cultural “supermarket” by “sending a shopping list” of the works it wanted to borrow — essentially everything.
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