Posted on 10/28/2007 11:45:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The hunt for the "Battle of Anghiari," ...which Leonardo began in 1505 to commemorate the 15th-century Florentine victory over Milan at Anghiari, a medieval Tuscan town... unfinished when Leonardo left Florence in 1506... was given new impetus about 30 years ago, when Seracini noticed a cryptic message on a fresco in the hall by Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century artist famed for chronicling Renaissance artists' labors. "Cerca, trova" -- "seek and you shall find" -- said the words on a tiny green flag in the "Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley." ...A few years ago, using radar and X-ray scans, Seracini and his team found a cavity behind Vasari's fresco that could indicate a space between two walls. "We're going to see if Vasari, instead of destroying, saved" Leonardo's fresco, Rutelli said Monday.
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Art Appreciation Thread
Is this the Da Vinci Clue?
(Vasari fresco holds mystery)
Associated Press | Tuesday, June 21, 2005 | ARIEL DAVID
Posted on 06/21/2005 6:11:06 PM EDT by Liz
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V&A turns down Bill Gates loan over ‘draconian’ restrictions
The Guardian | Sept. 26, 2006 | Paul Arendt
Posted on 09/26/2006 6:32:30 AM EDT by Republicanprofessor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708429/posts
Copy of Mona Lisa provides insight into original
CBC Arts | Sept. 24, 2006
Posted on 09/26/2006 6:48:28 AM EDT by Republicanprofessor
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Experts reconstruct Leonardo fingerprint
Yahoo! AP | Fri Dec 1, 2006 | Marta Falconi
Posted on 12/02/2006 11:59:39 PM EST by SunkenCiv
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Hunt for Da Vinci painting will resume [Missing “Battle of Anghiari”]
AP | 13 Jan 2007 | Ariel David
Posted on 01/14/2007 6:33:39 AM EST by FLOutdoorsman
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“Mona Lisa” died in 1542, buried in Florence
AFP | 19 Jan 2007 | AFP
Posted on 01/19/2007 11:52:36 AM EST by FLOutdoorsman
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‘Mona Lisa’ died in 1542, was buried in convent
Yahoo News | January 20, 2007
Posted on 01/20/2007 9:18:40 AM EST by NYer
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Secret image “found” in Last Supper
Italy Magazine | July 26, 2007
Posted on 07/26/2007 10:03:19 AM EDT by NYer
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Da Vinci’s Last Supper: New Conspiracy Theory
The Telegraph (UK) | 7-30-3007 | Matthew Moore
Posted on 07/30/2007 5:22:56 PM EDT by blam
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Vanity: “The Last Supper” in real life:
Image of a face in St. Bartholomew’s robe????
Posted on 10/28/2007 1:42:46 PM EDT by RooRoobird20
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An Interview with Rab Hatfield
http://www.theflorentine.net/lifestyle/2007/04/an-interview-with-rab-hatfield/
An interview with Peter Weller
http://www.theflorentine.net/lifestyle/2007/10/an-interview-with-peter-weller/
Florence Journal; The Warts on Michelangelo: The Man Was a Miser
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/21/world/florence-journal-the-warts-on-michelangelo-the-man-was-a-miser.html
Discovery by SU Florence professor in Botticelli masterpiece becomes subject of BBC documentary
https://www.syr.edu/news/articles/2010/botticelli-mystic-nativity-02-10.html
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