Man Who Shot Da Vinci Sketch Kept in Asylum
Associated Press
LONDON —
A man who fired a shotgun at a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery was ordered today to remain indefinitely in a mental hospital.
Robert Cambridge, 37, was sent to Broadmoor asylum last December after being convicted of blasting the priceless artwork on July 17, 1987, in a social protest. Cambridge blasted a six-inch gash in Leonardo’s 450-year-old charcoal and chalk drawing of the Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus.
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