It is a truly historical moment as this is the first time ever that the “Angel in the Flesh” (formerly in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle) will be shown on the West coast before it returns to Europe. Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy and organized in collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles, Leonardo da Vinci and Bill Viola’s exhibition concludes the 9th Italian Language Week dedicated to Arts, Science and Technology. Drawn with black chalk on rough, blue paper, like many of Leonardo’s late anatomy studies in Windsor, the “Angel in the Flesh” is a masterpiece which was the object of scrupulous studies and interpretations by major art historians, psychologists and psychoanalysts. On the occasion of this evening, both Pedretti and Viola will receive from the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Francesca Valente and the Consul General of Italy, Nicola Faganello, the IIC Lifetime Achievement Award for their outstanding lifelong activity and dedication to art. Author of fifty books, including the edition of the monumental corpus of the Leonardo drawings in the Queen’s Collection at Windsor Castle, and more than 700 articles and essays, he is still much active as a scholar and also as a regular contributor to the major Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” and to the Vatican “L’Osservatore Romano. With his wife Rossana he has established The Pedretti Foundation for the promotion of Leonardo scholarship in the world with its headquarters at their Villa di Castel Vitoni overlooking Vinci in the heart of Tuscany.

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