Da Vinci painting heads to Abu Dhabi

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - A painting of Christ by Leonardo da Vinci that was recently sold for a record $450 million is heading to the Louvre Abu Dhabi in a coup for the bold new museum, it announced on Wednesday.

The Louvre Abu Dhabi, the first museum to bear the Louvre name outside France, has been billed as "the first universal museum in the Arab world" in a sign of the oil-rich emirate's global ambitions.

"Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi is coming to #LouvreAbuDhabi," the museum said on Twitter in Arabic, English and French, displaying an image of the 500-year-old work.