Italy’s Uffizi Gallery, one of the oldest and foremost art museums in Europe, has placed the “Travola Doria,” a major 16th century work believed to be a same-era reproduction of a rendering by Leonardo Da Vinci, on a special exhibition from March 25. The painting will be shown until June 29, at which time it will be transferred to Japan for a four-year showing.
An oil on panel (86×115 cm) painting, the Travola Doria depicts a key scene of the design for the wall painting of the Battle of Anghiari that Da Vinci was commissioned to paint for the Palazzo Vecchio’s Hall of the Five Hundred in Florence, Italy.
The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum donated the work to the Italian Republic on November 27, 2012 as part of a broad cultural exchange agreement between the two parties.
When the Tavola Doria was exhibited in Rome on November 28, 2012 for a special showing at the Quirinal Palace, the Italian president’s official residence, President Giorgio Napolitano and his wife Clio Maria Bittoni viewed the work.
