A painting suspected of being a Leonardo da Vinci version of a younger looking Mona Lisa has been unveiled in Geneva.
Carefully pulling back velvet drapes, members of the Zurich-based Mona Lisa Foundation revealed what looks like a younger version of the world's most famous painting to a room crammed with reporters and television cameras.
Foundation president Markus Frey said the purpose of the event was to "present all the evidence showing that the great artist Leonardo da Vinci did in fact paint two versions of the Mona Lisa portrait".
The painting had been locked in a Swiss vault for more than 40 years and Mr Frey said it was time to "give that stunning earlier version the place in history which it deserves after such a long period in obscurity". . . .
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