Leonardo da Vinci

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• 3/17/19
  

  Why is the Mona Lisa not the Mona Lisa?

  by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Brown

  New research suggests the famous painting in the Louvre does not depict Mona Lisa.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-27-2018
  

  For Italy’s Populists, Everything Is a Nationalist Cause. Even Leonardo.

  The hard-right government has accused the French of disrespect and of trying to culturally appropriate the artist in a dispute over loaning his works.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8-9-18
  

  Historian Asserts That Leonardo’s Assistant Painted Majority of ‘Salvator Mundi’

  The Oxford research fellow names Bernardino Luini as main artist, believes da Vinci only painted between five to 20 percent of the painting.

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• SOURCE: Archaeology News Network
  6-6-14
  

  The case of the vanishing da Vinci

  One of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces, drawn in red chalk on paper during the early 1500s and widely believed to be a self-portrait, is in extremely poor condition.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  10-24-13
  

  Leonardo Da Vinci Mural Discovered Under Layers Of Paint During Sforza Castle Restoration In Italy

  The painting has been hidden from view for five centuries.

• SOURCE: Toronto Globe and Mail
  8-9-13
  

  Florence tomb opened in search for identity of Mona Lisa

  Researchers opened a centuries-old Florence tomb on Friday in a search for remains that could confirm the identity of the woman whose enigmatic smile Leonardo da Vinci immortalized in the Mona Lisa, one of the world’s most famous paintings.A round hole, just big enough for a person to wriggle through, was cut in the stone church floor above the family crypt of Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, whose wife, Lisa Gherardini, is thought to have sat for the Renaissance master in the early 16th century....