Vincent Delieuvin

Vincent Delieuvin (born 1978) is a French author and art historian specializing in the work of Leonardo da Vinci, and in Italian paintings of the sixteenth century, generally. Since 2006, he has worked as a heritage curator at the Louvre museum.

Biography

Vincent Delieuvin is an art historian and chief curator of Italian painting of the sixteenth century paintings department of the Louvre since 2006. He has written several books on Leonardo da Vinci. He is a knight of Arts and Letters. A graduate of the Institut national du patrimoine (Museums - State - Jacques Tati Promotion - 2003), he has curated several exhibitions. He has been a member of the editorial board of the ''Revue de l'Art'' since 2015.

Winner of the Carnot Foundation grant in 2004, he spent five months in Rome to study the artistic fortune of Federico Barocci. A recipient of the Focillon grant in 2015, he spent several months in the United States thanks to Yale University for his project: "Original, copy, derivation. The work of Leonardo da Vinci through the covers of his followers. Study of Leonardo's works in public collections in the United States".

Delieuvin has commented on the authenticity of one of the paintings under his supervision, the '' Mona Lisa''. In 2005, a scholar at Heidelberg University discovered a marginal note in a 1477 printing of a volume by ancient Roman philosopher Cicero. The note was dated October 1503, and was written by Leonardo's contemporary Agostino Vespucci. This note likens Leonardo to renowned Greek painter Apelles, who is mentioned in the text, and states that Leonardo was at that time working on a painting of Lisa del Giocondo. In response, Delieuvin stated "Leonardo da Vinci was painting, in 1503, the portrait of a Florentine lady by the name of Lisa del Giocondo. About this we are now certain. Unfortunately, we cannot be absolutely certain that this portrait of Lisa del Giocondo is the painting of the Louvre". Circa 1505, Raphael executed a pen-and-ink sketch of the ''Mona Lisa'', with columns flanking the subject. It was thought that the ''Mona Lisa'' had been trimmed, but by 1993, Frank Zöllner observed that the painting surface had never been trimmed, which was confirmed through a series of tests in 2004. In view of this, Delieuvin stated in 2017 that the sketch and other copies must have been inspired by another version.

Publications

*''Leonardo da Vinci'', Vincent Delieuvin and Louis Frank (ed.) Co-edition Louvre museum editions / Hazan,october 2019. Exhibition catalog, 480 p., 29.5 x 3.7 x 24.8 cm. ( ), ( )
*''Leonardo da Vinci in 15 questions''. Hazan, 2019. 84 pages, 23 cm. ( )
*''Léonard de Vinci'', Delpire éd., Collection: "Poche illustrateur", 2019. 128 pages, 19 x 1.1 x 12.5 cm ( )
*''La Joconde nue'', Co-edition Domaine de Chantilly - Musée Condé and In Fine art editions, 2019. exhibition catalog, 224 pages, 228 * 287 * 20, ( )
*''What's wrong with this Mona Lisa?'', Actes Sud junior, 2016. 61 pages, 21 cm. ( )
*''La Sainte Anne, the ultimate masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci'', Vincent Delieuvin (dir.) With Françoise Barbe, Cécile Beuzelin, Sue Ann Chui. Officina Libraria, collection: "Musée du Louvre", 2012. exhibition catalog, 448 pages, 24.5 x 3.4 x 29.3 cm. ( )
*''Raphaël, the last years'', Editions du Louvre and Hazan, 2012. Exhibition catalog, 400 pages. ( )
*''Baccio Bandinelli: drawings, sculptures, paintings'', Françoise Viatte and Marc Bormand for the sculptures, Vincent Delieuvin for the painting; with the collaboration of Véronique Goarin. Louvre éditions, Officina libraria, 2011. 318 pages, 28 cm. ( )
*''Titian, Tintoretto, Véronèse, rivalries in Venice'', Vincent Delieuvin and Jean Habert; assisted by Arturo Galansino. Hazan: Musée du Louvre éditions, 2009. Exhibition catalog, 479 pages, 29.5 x 4 x 25.5 cm. ( ) and ( ). And, from the same authors with Amine Kharchach: the exhibition album: 47 pages, 29 cm, ( ) and ( )

Exhibitions

As curator:

*Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in Compiègne, Museums and national estates of the Imperial Palace of Compiègne, France, 25 October 2006 - January 29, 2007
*Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese… Rivalry in Venice, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA, from March 15, 2009 at Aug 16, 2009 then Louvre Museum, France, from September 17, 2009 at January 4, 2010
*La Sainte Anne, Leonardo da Vinci's ultimate masterpiece, Louvre Museum, France, March 29, 2012 at June 25, 2012
*Raphaël, the last years, Louvre Museum, France, October 11, 2012 - Jan. 14, 2013
*The naked Mona Lisa, Domain of Chantilly, France, 1 st June -October 6, 2019
*Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre Museum, France, October 24, 2019 - February 24, 2020

Notes and references

External links

Article du Monde.fr Monde.fr article on the restoration of Saint Anne de Vinci under the coordination of Vincent DelieuvinInterview of Vincent Delieuvin by the Journal des Arts
* ttps://playtv.fr/programme-tv/1060917/de-l%27art-et-du-cochon/ Replay of the program of Art and the Pig on Arte around Arcimboldo with Vincent Delieuvinbr>Replay of the program "La Fabrique de l'histoire" on French Culture on the restoration of Saint Anne with Vincent DelieuvinFrance Info "La Belle Ferronnière" by Leonardo da Vinci cleaned of its varnishes

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1978 births
20th-century French non-fiction writers
French art historians
French art curators
Living people