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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

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To: Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

Thanks Red Badger.

21 posted on 10/05/2013 4:40:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

happiness is a warm gun

and they keep their value over the years if cared for.


22 posted on 10/05/2013 4:42:43 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Don’t know much about art, but I think the painting is ugly.


23 posted on 10/05/2013 4:56:19 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: higgmeister

The sketch is, IMHO, superior in one respect.
She has far more character and personality, especially the face.


24 posted on 10/05/2013 6:07:50 PM PDT by djf (Global warming is turning out to be a bunch of hot air!!)
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To: Red Badger

To One and All:

Please read the article before engaging in ill-informed speculation. After reading it, feel free to indulge ;)


25 posted on 10/06/2013 4:06:48 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Found in a bank vault?

Hardly “lost”!


26 posted on 10/06/2013 7:16:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Red Badger
Back in those days, you really had a lot of time to dedicate to your craft. People don't draw and paint like da Vinci anymore and nobody writes cantatas like Johann Sebastian Bach.

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.

27 posted on 10/06/2013 7:21:50 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Huh! I would think Elvis would have had a lute strung around him. Other than that it looks realistic.


28 posted on 10/06/2013 7:23:37 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: Red Badger

“I’m smart! I can do things!”


29 posted on 10/06/2013 7:25:45 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Red Badger; flaglady47; mickie; pax_et_bonum
Remarkably, the writer lazily does not elaborate on his statement that "the painting was found in a private collection of 400 works kept in a Swiss bank vault by an Italian family who asked not to be identified."

"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

30 posted on 10/06/2013 7:55:30 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a bad postage stamp.


31 posted on 10/06/2013 12:29:42 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Bigg Red; BenLurkin; Lonesome in Massachussets

Da Vinci was on no sleep, so, can’t fault him for not finishing the work. ;’)


32 posted on 10/12/2013 10:33:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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