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This combo picture made on February 1, 2012 shows a picture taken at Paris Louvre Museum on April 05, 2005 of the Portrait of Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci (L) and a picture taken at Madrid’s Prado Museum on February 1, 2012 of an authenticated contemporary copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (R). The Prado Museum in Madrid presented on February 1, 2012 an authenticated contemporary copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa after it was found in its vaults. According to details of experts’ findings published by the specialist British journal The Art Newspaper and the Spanish media, the work is a copy painted in Da Vinci’s studio by one of his pupils. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-PIERRE MULLER-JAVIER SORIANO (Photo credit should read JEAN-PIERRE MULLER-JAVIER SORIAN/AFP/Getty Images)