Da Vinci self-portrait brought to Zbiroh Chateau

A self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci was brought to the Zbiroh Chateau in Western Bohemia on Sunday evening, amid special security measures and an armed police escort. The work, believed to have been created between 1505 and 1510, will be the centrepiece of an exhibition on the Knights Templar that will run at Zbiroh until March 18. The owner of the chateau said negotiating the loan took a year and a half and 15 trips to Italy. The 60x40cm painting was only discovered in 2008, when a historian discovered it in a family collection in southern Italy.