Da Vinci exhibition in London surpassed pop stars

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The Da Vinci exhibition in London surpassed pop stars

LONDON, November 22 - RIA Novosti, Elena Pakhomov. London dealers are selling tickets for the exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery at a price 15 times higher than the face value, against the background of the fact that all tickets are booked up until the close of the exhibition in February 2012, the newspaper writes on Tuesday Evening Standard.

"Leonardo: the artist Milanese court" - the first and largest in the history of the exhibition devoted to the works of Da Vinci's exactly as the artist, not a scientist or inventor. It brings together nine of the 15 surviving works by the master, and dozens of his drawings. Excitement around the show began a few months ago, and by the time she was offered only at the beginning of November, the gallery has already announced that pre-booking of tickets closed.

Every morning commercially available only a few hundred tickets for the day, and people stand in line for three hours to see the masterpieces. Evening Standard wrote that, according to such statistics, the da Vinci at the National Gallery is superior to pop stars such as, for example, Rihanna.

At face value tickets at 16 pounds (25 dollars) on some websites price is 250 pounds (almost $ 400). However, the gallery has posted on its Web site warning that overbought tickets may be voided. The museum is associated with sites that offer to get to the exhibition at a convenient time and without waiting in line, and warned that their clients may lose money and Leonardo did not see it.

The National Gallery has collected almost all of the "Milan" period of the master. There is here only the "Mona Lisa" and the fresco "The Last Supper." Work for the exhibition provided a museum in Italy, France, USA, Russia and Poland, despite the fact that the London gallery has been negotiating for an exhibition last five years.

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