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"Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci is famous for so many great works of art&amp;amp;#8212;the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, the Vitruvian Man&amp;amp;#8212;but did you know that in his spare time, he also designed handbags? Scholars at the Museo Ideale in Italy have discovered that da Vinci designed a variety of fashion accessories over the course of his wildly successful career&amp;amp;#8212;and one, this handbag, will be produced and sold at retail this year by luxury leather goods house Gherardini. Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta at the Gherardini launch &amp;quot;Leonardo designed several fashion accessories, but this bag is pretty unique,&amp;quot; art historian Alessandro Vessozi told The Daily Mail. &amp;quot;It blends beauty and functionality in a very harmonious way.&amp;quot; The handbag, which was reconstructed from da Vinci&amp;#x27;s sketches by experts at the museum, will be produced by Gherardini and sold as the &amp;quot;Pretiosa,&amp;quot; which means &amp;quot;precious,&amp;quot; beginning this March. Museum experts estimate that the drawing was done by da Vinci &amp;quot;at the end of the 15th century in 1497 when the artist was painting the tapestries in the Last Supper,&amp;quot; reports the Daily Mail. What do you think about this Leonardo da Vinci handbag? Tell us in the comments! Photo credit: Getty Images PLUS... &amp;amp;#183; 12 colorful clutches to dream about this weekend &amp;amp;#183; Spring trends you can wear now: futuristic metallic accessories &amp;amp;#183; $50 and under: chic pouches you can use in a zillion ways"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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