France, Italy mark Leonardo da Vinci's 500th anniversary

Christie's employees pose in front of a painting entitled Salvator Mundi by Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

France's Emmanuel Macron and Italian President Sergio Mattarella will mark the anniversary with visits to his grave at the royal chateau and the Clos Luce, the sumptuous manor house nearby where Leonardo lived and died.Among glitterati attending the events will be Italian star architect Renzo Piano and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

Mattarella, staunchly pro-EU like Macron, played an"essential role" in lowering tensions, Macron's office said. But the 51-year-old vented"frustration" that the townspeople would be largely sidelined."It should be the memory of a lifetime," he said.- 'Architect of the king' - At the time, Francis I was barely 23, and his ambitious mother Louise of Savoy"knew that Leonardo would be the man who would allow her son to flourish", Catherine Simon Marion, managing director of the Clos Luce, told AFP.

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