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Possible da Vinci painting found in Scottish farmhouse; could be worth $150 million
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| August 7, 2012
| Eric Pfeiffer
Posted on 08/07/2012 3:34:34 PM PDT by NYer
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To: NYer
I don’t think it’s by the hand of the master because it has no resemblance to anything else he ever did (in terms of brush strokes, line, etc.).
It may be from his studio, however, because artists maintained a stable of people who either copied or executed their works, that is, translated a sketch into a painting.
It’s still very interesting. The style, to me, looks like a curious combination of modern, looking at the faces of the Virgin and St John, and pre-Renn, looking at the setting combined with the depiction of the Infant.
I think it’s a workshop production, and I believe there may have been a Spanish painter involved, based mainly on the depiction of the Infant.
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:07:23 PM PDT
by
livius
To: mnehring
Not Mary Magdalene, doesn't have any of her attributes (long unbound hair - skull - egg - jar of ointment).
Clearly the Blessed Virgin with Christ and John the Baptist (a subject that da Vinci painted repeatedly).
Trust the Daily Mail to be utterly clueless - not exactly a bunch of highbrows over there.
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:09:46 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: Tijeras_Slim
You can get anything you want
At Alice’s Restaurant
(excepting Alice).
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:11:19 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Explaining what each one was to be used in evidence against us . . . . .
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:11:23 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: NYer
I looked in my barn but all that was there was a can of fence stain and a note - "do it yerself, you lazy bastidge. Leo"
Some people have all the luck.
To: allmendream
To have John the Baptist holding a cross and with/pointing to a lamb ("Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!") is not that unusual among artists. Here, for example, is a painting by Matthias Grünewald:
To: Charles Henrickson
Even if the painting is not a da Vinci original, it is believed to at least be from the da Vinci school, created by one of the master's pupils during the 16th century.
Right, more Brit newspaper sensationalism!
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:21:22 PM PDT
by
STD
([You must help] people in theÂ…feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless)
To: Joe 6-pack
LOL...maybe a damned good thriller novel and movie!
To: ClearCase_guy
re: Picasso had his blue period and apparently da Vinci had his red circles with numbers period.)))
lol.
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:26:36 PM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: NYer
Why in the world would they think that this is Mary Magdalen, unless they’ve got a skull full of Da Vinci Code?
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:30:15 PM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: Scott from the Left Coast
"doing in Scotland"
He was there for the Scottish Highland Games. Also to get a bottle of Glenlivet. Och Aye!
To: allmendream
the child on the left is pointing to the lamb and holding a staff that is a cross over the childs head...(this child is the lamb of God and the cross is symbolic of the redeemer) just my opinion and the flower if you look at it with a magnifying glass does not look like a carnation....similar to what a zinnia looks like...too flat headed to be a carnation...jmho
To: Charles Henrickson; martin_fierro; NYer
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:41:03 PM PDT
by
mikrofon
(That's no Da Vinci...)
To: NYer; Joe 6-pack; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson; Tijeras_Slim
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posted on
08/07/2012 4:51:10 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(The Piece of Cod That Surpasseth All Understanding)
To: Jonty30
Some people have all the luck.Just reminded me to check my lottery ticket! I'll be back!
I'm back.
Some people have all the luck.
Zero correct numbers out of 6.
I already checked the garage. Lot of good stuff in there, but no paintings, violins, or parchment scrolls.
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posted on
08/07/2012 5:01:47 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: livius
Leonardo, indeed, had a workshop. One of his artists was a fellow named Giovanni Beltraffio. Another was Marco Or...something or other. It's chronicled in the wonderful historical novel “The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci” which is based on Vasari’s biography of the one and only Chairman of the Board.
I don't think it looks like his work at all.
To: NYer
The artist’s last name isn’t “da Vinci,” which refers to his birthplace at Vinci in Tuscany. He should be referred to as Leonardo.
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posted on
08/07/2012 5:39:59 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
To: Fiji Hill
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posted on
08/07/2012 6:37:17 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
To: Charles Henrickson
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:05:40 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
(culture, language, borders)
To: C210N
***Perhaps da Vinci all along used the paint by number system. ***
There was a cartoon in Playboy mag about 40 years ago about this. At least I didn’t see it in my Charles ADDAMS book.
A restorer has removed a small section of paint and calls for his assistants to see the “paint by numbers” under drawing.
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posted on
08/07/2012 8:09:41 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Tyrannies demand immense sacrifices of their people to produce trifles.-Marquis de Custine)
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