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London’s National Gallery crackdown on re-sale of Leonardo da Vinci exhibition tickets

LONDON (REUTERS).- London’s National Gallery said on Wednesday it would crack down on the re-sale of tickets to its blockbuster show of Leonardo da Vinci paintings which are being offered online at up to 300 pounds each ($470). The normal price of a ticket to “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan,” billed as the most complete collection of Leonardo’s few surviving paintings ever staged, is 16 pounds $25). “We are obviously very disappointed at the resale of these tickets for profit,” said a spokeswoman for the gallery. “The resale of tickets for the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition is against the terms and conditions of their sale and this information is printed on the tickets. “Our website clearly states: ‘Tickets that have been resold will be canceled without refund and admission will be refused to the bearer.'” She added that the gallery was in the process of contacting companies and websites offering to re-sell tickets and requesting that they “stop immediately. “We