A 16th-century painting of a nude Mona Lisa formerly ascribed to Leonardo Da Vinci will go on show for the first time on Saturday as part of a extensive new exhibition opening near Florence. Over 5,000 works inspired by the master Mona Lisa including paintings, sculpts, engravings and new media figures crossing five centuries will get on exhibit at the Museo Ideale in Leonardo’s hometown of Vinci for the exhibit, the greatest ever held on the mystifying muse. Experts have succeeded in demonstrating that the nude Mona Lisa once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte’s uncle, Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763-1839) – a major collector who also owned Leonardo’s painting of St Jerome now in the Vatican Museums.
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