Leonardo fingerprint reveals $150 million artwork

npr ^ | October 14, 2009 | The Associated Press

[bogusname]

A portrait of a young woman thought to be created by a 19th century German artist and sold two years ago for about $19,000 is now being attributed by art experts to Leonardo da Vinci and valued at more than $150 million. The unsigned chalk, ink and pencil drawing, known as "La Bella Principessa," was matched to Leonardo via a technique more suited to a crime lab than an art studio — a fingerprint and palm print found on the 13 1/2-inch-by-10-inch work. Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, said the print of an index or middle finger matched a fingerprint found on Leonardo's "St. Jerome" in the Vatican...

[ArtDodger]

I am such a skeptic... What if the print were faked?? Turns a 20 thousand dollar painting into one worth 170 million...
Nah! Not worth the effort!

[billorites]

I feel sad...

[bogusname]

LOL

[jwparkerjr]

I have to wonder what database had Leonardo da Vinci’s fingerprints for comparison. Had he been convicted of a crime?

[SunkenCiv]

• Fingerprint points to $19,000 portrait being revalued as £100m work by Leonardo da Vinci
• £12,000 portrait revealed to be £100m Leonardo - art detectives discover master's fingerprint

other Leonardo topic:

• A High-Tech Hunt for Lost Art

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