Francesca Sidhu views 'Cecilia Gallerani, The Lady with an Ermine' by Leonardo da Vinci, part of the ?Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan' exhibition shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short)
Francesca Sidhu views 'Cecilia Gallerani, The Lady with an Ermine' by Leonardo da Vinci, part of the ?Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan' exhibition shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short)
Francesca Sidhu looks at 'Cecilia Gallerani, The Lady with an Ermine' by Leonardo da Vinci, part of the ?Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan' exhibition shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London Monday, Nov. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Jonathan Short)
LONDON (AP) ? Leonardo da Vinci is a Renaissance rock star.
A-list levels of hype and anticipation are surrounding a new exhibition of the artist's work at London's National Gallery.
"Leonardo: Painter at the Court of Milan" focuses on da Vinci's formative years as a court painter in the 1480s and 1490s. The gallery spent years persuading museums in Italy, France, the United States, Russia and Poland to lend fragile works for the show, which gathers nine of Leonardo's 15 surviving paintings and dozens of drawings.
It includes "Salvator Mundi," a formerly disputed portrait of Christ that the gallery says is an authentic da Vinci work.
Tuesday's VIP preview is being broadcast live on television and in 40 British movie theaters. The show opens Wednesday and runs to Feb. 5.
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