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.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
happiness is a warm gun
and they keep their value over the years if cared for.
Don’t know much about art, but I think the painting is ugly.
The sketch is, IMHO, superior in one respect.
She has far more character and personality, especially the face.
To One and All:
Please read the article before engaging in ill-informed speculation. After reading it, feel free to indulge ;)
Found in a bank vault?
Hardly “lost”!
Then again, da Vinci and Bach did not binge-watch "Breaking Bad" on Netflix. Nor did they spend their weekends watching NFL football and spending a few hours at Buffalo Wild Wings drinking pumpkin beer and consuming mass amounts of overly seasoned chicken parts.
Fact is, there was much less modern distractions back in 1499 or even 1717. Artists had pretty much all day to perfect their craft.
Huh! I would think Elvis would have had a lute strung around him. Other than that it looks realistic.
“I’m smart! I can do things!”
"Remarkable" because of the questions which automatically come to any inquiring mind regarding the circumstances surrounding the actual "finding" of this work of art.
How was it "found"? By the bank itself? By Swiss authorities? By Nazi war criminal sleuths? By Italian authorities exerting pressure somewhere? By Interpol? By a lowly clerk who handles vault-openings for customers and decided to take a private peek inside? By a rogue member of the "Italian family" itself?
The circumstances surrounding the "finding" of this painting is as speculative as is the identity of the real artist of the Italian noblewoman's portrait.
Leni
Looks like a bad postage stamp.
Da Vinci was on no sleep, so, can’t fault him for not finishing the work. ;’)
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