The famed anatomical drawing by Leonardo, a combination of art and mathematics, will appear in next week's Louvre exhibition commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Renaissance Man's death. (He was born April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, and died on May 2,, 1519, in Amboise, France.) The exhibit opens October 24 at the Paris museum and runs through Feb. 24, 2020. "Vitruvian Man" will be on display until December 14.

Italia Nostra, a heritage conversation group, had gone to court to stop the loan of the famous drawing on the grounds that it was too delicate to travel or be displayed publicly. The drawing, which Leonardo did about 1490, is ink on paper. Its usual home is a climate-controlled room at the Accademia Gallery in Venice that is not open to the public. An administrative court said that as long as the transportation and display efforts followed proper procedure, the Louvre could borrow the art work.

Leonardo based his drawing on the works of Vitruvius, a Roman architect from ancient times who used the human body's measurements and design as inspiration for his architecture. Leonardo saw the way that the human body worked as similar to the way that the universe worked.

The exhibition will include four of the Louvre's five paintings done by Leonardo: La Belle Ferronnieére, The Madonna of the Rocks (right), Saint Anne, and Saint John the Baptist. Leonardo's most well-known painting, the Mona Lisa, will remain in the Louvre where it is currently displayed.

Among the sculptures in the exhibit will be Christ and St. Thomas, done by Andrea del Verrocchio. Leonardo was working in Verrochio's studio when that sculpture was done.

Another part of the exhibit will include preparatory drawings for Leonardo's fresco The Last Supper, which resides on a convent wall in Milan.

The culture ministers of France and Italy agreed to an exchange of famous art works. France will do its part next year by loaning to a Rome museum some works by Raphael, for a celebration of that famous artist's death anniversary in 2020.