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Leonardo da Vinci painting lost for centuries found in Swiss bank vault
Telegraph UK ^
| 3:32PM BST 04 Oct 2013
| Nick Squires By Nick Squires, Rome
Posted on 10/04/2013 1:28:39 PM PDT by Red Badger
It was lost for so long that it had assumed mythical status for art historians. Some doubted whether it even existed.
But a 500-year-old mystery was apparently solved today after a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci was discovered in a Swiss bank vault.
The painting, which depicts Isabella dEste, a Renaissance noblewoman, was found in a private collection of 400 works kept in a Swiss bank by an Italian family who asked not to be identified.
It appears to be a completed, painted version of a pencil sketch drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in Mantua in the Lombardy region of northern Italy in 1499.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; History
KEYWORDS: art; davinci; godsgravesglyphs; italy; renaissance
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The painting appears to be a completed, painted version of a pencil sketch drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in Mantua in the Lombardy region of northern Italy in 1499.
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:32:46 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: Red Badger
in a private collection of 400 works kept in a Swiss bank by an Italian family who asked not to be identified.
That's a big collection.....Too bad they were stashed, art needs to be seen.
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:33:37 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Ms. Muffett suffered from arachnophobia)
To: Red Badger
That Leonardo guy sure could draw.
Don't know about that "lost" painting though.
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:38:45 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: Hot Tabasco
Some people invest in gold. Some in art.
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:41:32 PM PDT
by
tbw2
To: Red Badger
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:45:24 PM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: Argus
I thought at first you were wrong, but as I looked more closely, the painting appears to be missing that “je ne sais quoi” of a da Vinci and even his study sketch.
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:46:11 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: tbw2
And the smart ones know that in a real crisis gold and art will be worthless.
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:51:47 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
To: Red Badger
She has one hell of a trigger finger!
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:52:18 PM PDT
by
logitech
(It is time.)
To: higgmeister
The expression of the face is bland, devoid of character, the hair lacks texture, the chaplet is tilted at an unlikely angle and looks wrong for the period, and the neckline of the dress is quite different from the drawing. If it’s a Leonardo, he really dashed it off, but I doubt it.
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:55:09 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: Argus
Which one?.................
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posted on
10/04/2013 1:59:08 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Argus
If its a Leonardo, he really dashed it off, but I doubt it. Needed some quick cash for his inventions research...............
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posted on
10/04/2013 2:01:00 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: higgmeister
Maybe it was Fernando Da Vinci....................
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posted on
10/04/2013 2:02:25 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
Not a very appealing painting.
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posted on
10/04/2013 2:04:30 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Ditter
I’d be glad to take it................
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posted on
10/04/2013 2:20:20 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
Yeah me too! I’d sell it as soon as I found a buyer.
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posted on
10/04/2013 2:28:56 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Red Badger
I prefer Leo's Elvis on Velvet.
To: higgmeister
If it is a DaVinci, it should be easy enough to authenticate with the index of finger and hand prints from known DaVinci works.
It's been done for other questioned paintings. Comparing the sketch to the work, my guess is the painting was started then abandoned by LDV, then later finished/restored/*improved* by some apprentice or novice.
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posted on
10/04/2013 5:20:57 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Red Badger
If this is Da Vinci which I highly doubt not one of his best works by far.
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posted on
10/04/2013 5:44:28 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: higgmeister; Argus
I agree; the sketch is far superior to that painting. They’d better sell that painting to a museum quick, before they identify all the “improvements” by some other hand.
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posted on
10/05/2013 2:37:24 AM PDT
by
Hetty_Fauxvert
(FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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