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Leonardo Da Vinci may be at the heart of a real art mystery

LOS ANGELES - At three o’clock on a cold December morning, a team of researchers huddled together on scaffolding 25 feet high in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, holding a tablet computer up to a huge 16th century fresco.

But the researchers weren’t interested in the dramatic battle scene, the work of Renaissance artist Georgio Vasari.

Their goal was to solve one of art history’s greatest mysteries - whether Vasari preserved a long-lost work of Leonardo Da Vinci, "The Battle of Anghiari," behind his own....

Read entire article at Boston Herald