And baking his way through the impressive repertoire of the new 28 my colleague. Ingenuity behind the hungary and potato project. On may 2nd 2900 marked 500 years since the death of Leonardo Da Vinci and the italian renaissance master who spent the last 3 years of his life in the french war valley as 1st painter engineer and architect to the french king well this is why the louvre holds almost a 3rd of the paintings attributed to him including of course the famous one elisa and its pulled out all the stops to get as many more on site as possible for this exhibition a task almost as more new mental as devon shes genius. The mona lisa is still the star of the louvre but on the 500th anniversary of The Old Masters death she is getting a lot of competition from a separate exhibition the curators have moved mountains together the most important
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vinci s for this. 2 is over the da vinci s works are spread around the globe they only see them as absolute treasures and are reluctant to let them go. but for the louvre many making an exception jeremy turner s in st petersburg has lent out madonna bennelong the vatican has provided the unfinished. $160.00 painting sculptures letters and drawings have been made available it s a one time only event. fortunately many were generous in particular the bill gates foundation and the queen of england queen elizabeth is the biggest lines are with of many were very generous for others there were clearly more tensions involved we understand that because many institutions are defined by the cheese they hold and