translate English to French: Once again, St. Mark’s Square shall host the New Year celebrations with a lot of music, toasts and fireworks that shall end in a huge and sensual common kiss: just one unanimous kiss to send a message of love, peace and brotherhood to the world and to transform Venice for one night into the world capital of Love.
The world-renowned Leonardo’s drawing, probably the most known and reproduced among Master Leonardo’s artworks, represents a perfect picture of Western culture, highlighting the double nature of man, that is physical and spiritual, and his role at the centre of the universe, namely a microcosm representing the cosmos on the base of the proportions of human body established in the II century B.C. by Vitruvio.