I have noticed over the last couple months that Leonarda da Vinci has been in the news more than he has been since Dan Brown had his way with him in a few years back. A couple of quick links:
- Over at the “CultureGrrl” blog, there is post about Pascal Cotte, a Frenchmen who has been taking detailed digital scans of the Mona Lisa and has created “a reproduction of the Mona Lisa with the light blues and brilliant whites he thinks represent the painting in its original form.”
- At the Smithsonian magazine website is an article concerning the findings of Renaissance scholar Gary M. Radke. He has announced that two silver figures on a plaque from the Florence Baptistery, which had been thought to have been creations by Andrea del Verrocchio were actually made by his student, Leonardo.
- But the big news all over the art world for the last month had been the discovery of the portrait to the right. Originally sold in the 1990s for relatively low price of $19,000 it has been re-evaluated by the famous Martin Kemp of Oxford. Using multiple processes, including fingerprint analysis, it has been reattributed to Leonardo. Check out the article here.
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