The route, as laid out, doesn’t offer much in the way of scholarly news, but fabulous images abound. On loan from the Department of Antiquities in Jordan, it’s Giacometti before Giacometti. That this sculpture is a recent Louvre Abu Dhabi acquisition confirms that there’s some smart (and provenance-challenging) shopping going on. Leonardo da Vinci’s “La Belle Ferronnière” (1495-99), a kind of second-tier “Mona Lisa” sent by the Louvre in Paris, is one. (The Louvre Abu Dhabi owns it.)

Source: New York Times November 28, 2017 20:37 UTC