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TORONTO (AP) — Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci— in part by examining a fingerprint on the canvas.
Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, said Tuesday that a fingerprint on what was presumed to be a 19th-century German painting of a young woman has convinced art experts that it's actually a da Vinci.
Canadian-born art collector Peter Silverman bought "Profile of the Bella Principessa" at the Ganz gallery in New York on behalf of an anonymous Swiss collector in 2007 for about $19,000. New York art dealer Kate Ganz had owned it for about 11 years after buying it at auction for a similar price.
One London art dealer now says it could be worth more than $150 million.
If experts are correct, it will be the first major work by da Vinci to be identified in 100 years.
Biro said the print of an index or middle finger was found on the painting and that it matched a fingerprint from da Vinci's St Jerome in the Vatican. Biro examined multispectral images of the painting taken by the Luminere Technology laboratory in Paris. The lab used a special digital scanner to show successive layers of the work.
"Leonardo used his hands liberally and frequently as part of his painting technique. His fingerprints are found on many of his works," Biro said. "I was able to make use of multispectral images to make a little smudge a very readable fingerprint."
Technical, stylistic and material composition evidence also point to it being a da Vinci. Biro said there's strong consensus among art experts that it is a da Vinci painting.TORONTO (AP) — Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da... more
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“Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius,” won’t open till Oct. 6, but the High Museum of Art surprised everyone this week by saying it would open up the exhibition on Monday, when the museum is usually closed, and allow people in for free.
Whenever you see it, here’s what you can expect to see.
A 24-foot horse. It’s on the piazza, so you can see it for free any time, but even if you could miss it, you wouldn’t want to. Leonardo never had a chance to see it this way, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy it.
Small, detailed sketches, notes and studies. These are Leonardo’s, and they reveal his skill and process. They’re small, which can make the exhibit space appear sparse, but they’re so detailed, there’s no …
if you would like to learn more about Leonardo go to www.leonardoshands.com“Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius,” won’t open till Oct. 6, but... more
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"Rainier Elstermann series "Old Masters", recreates classic art staples replacing the original models with children, giving the end results a strange kind of gravitas." Amazing work and awesome talent!"Rainier Elstermann series "Old Masters", recreates classic art staples... more
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Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is arguably the world's most famous and celebrated work of art and as such, it has been celebrated--and ridiculed--by world famous artists including Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Rene Magritte, Fernando Botero, Jean-Michel Basquiat and others. Check out the various renditions of the famous Gioconda.Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is arguably the world's most famous and... more
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The holy and the profane, or the spiritual and the corporeal, begun to intermingle in Renaissance life and art. Towards the end of the Renaissance the erotic content became more and more evident. Mannerism produced images where a mythological or allegorical motif appears only as a disguise for erotic contents. Quasi sacred motifs such as Cornelisz's painting The Monk with a Nun were just cover ups for erotica if not almost pornography.The holy and the profane, or the spiritual and the corporeal, begun to intermingle in... more
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