In 2019, a Rai TV drama on Leonardo da Vinci to tell the complexities of his genius

At the Prix Italia, which took place last week in Capri, a fiction dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci was announced with the intention of recounting the complexities of the renowned Renaissance genius.
A Rai, France Télévisions and Zdf co-production, the drama will consist of eight episodes and is expected to debut during 2019, precisely on the 500th anniversary of the artist and inventor’s death and in conjunction with the exhibition that the Louvre will dedicate to him for the same purpose.

Rai Fiction director Eleonora Andreatta broke the news by stating, "We are writing it and to do so we have chosen two great screenwriters Frank Spotnitz, who is showrunner of the ’The Medici’ project as well as creator of the Amazon series ’The Man in the High Castle,’ and Steven Thompson. Together they are writing the project that will see the light of day next year. It will be a co-production with France and probably Germany as well. But it will certainly involve other European countries as well. The budget is between 24 and 30 million euros, which is average for these projects, but since we don’t have the writing yet we don’t know what the final budget will be."

As mentioned, the fiction wants to tell, again in Andreatta’s words, "Leonardo da Vinci, a great genius but also a very complex and suffered man. We will enter his soul through Caterina, one of his models who will reveal the master of the ’Mona Lisa’ through the eyes of a normal woman who helps us understand the man and the artist."

In 2019, a Rai TV drama on Leonardo da Vinci to tell the complexities of his genius

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