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Breaking the news from Krakow, Poland Da Vinci on Leave: Krakow Misses ‘Lady with an Ermine’ Krakow’s famous ‘Lady with an Ermine’, one of the world’s finest portraits by Leonardo da Vinci, isn’t to be seen in the city for the time being. First Poland’s most valued work of art has left its home in Princes Czartoryski Museum for Budapest in October 2009. Next it went to grace an exhibition at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Now there are plans to incorporate the picture into a temporary exhibitions in Madrid (May through July 2011), then Berlin (August through October), and lastly a show of da Vinci's works in London's National Gallery scheduled from November 2011 through February 2012. Because the Princes Czartoryski Museum has closed for a two-year renovation probably till the end of 2012, ‘Lady with an Ermine’ will be shown elsewhere in the meantime. Now it is expected to return to Krakow in February 2012. From May it will find a temporary home at the National Museum's branch in Kamienica Szolayskich (Stanislaw Wyspianski Muzeum), 11 Szczpanska street at Plac Szczepanski square. It has been announced that after her homecoming ‘Lady with an Ermine’ won't leave Krakow for ten years or longer. Specialists warn that every transfer of a 500-year-old painting carries the risk of harm. No wonder art experts and the media, as well general public in Krakow, were aghast at the decision to dispatch ‘Lady with an Ermine’ to Budapest in the first place. Leonardo’s painting was brought from Krakow to the capital of Hungary to grace the exhibition ‘From Botticelli to Titian’ in Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts. The deal with Hungarians had been arranged by the board of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation which owns the museum. It admits that its intention is to earn as much as possible, now and in the future, on displaying abroad the most precious treasure in their custody. Previously da Vinci’s only work in Poland left Krakow in 2002 to be the centerpiece of exhibitions in Japan and next in the USA.
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