Gulf News | A French city asks Madonna to loan her a painting she lost in 1918.

The mayor of the city of Amiens, in northern France, asked the American singer Madonna to loan the city a painting dating back to the ninth century Ten were lost during World War I and it is believed that the singer may have bought them in order to help the city Become the European Capital of Culture. The painting “Diana and Andymion” by the painter Jerome Martin Langlois depicts the Roman goddess Diana looking on With a passion for the handsome young Andymion among the exhibits of the Amiens Museum, but it was lost after Germany bombed the city in 1918. The French newspaper Le Figaro reported that the painting or one similar to it was offered for sale at auction in New York In 1989, Madonna bought it for $1.3 million. A Madonna spokesperson did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. The city of Amiens, the birthplace of French President Emmanuel Macron, is competing for the title of European Capital of Culture for the year 2028. “We don’t doubt anything,” Brigitte Faure, Mayor of Amiens, said in a video clip posted on Facebook In the event of the legality of your acquisition, we are candidates for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2028. So, on this occasion, this year, I would like to borrow your painting.”