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Finger points to new da Vinci art
A new Leonardo da Vinci portrait may have been discovered after a fingerprint found on it seemed similar to another discovered on his work.
A Paris laboratory found the fingerprint is “highly comparable” to one on a da Vinci work in the Vatican.
Antiques Trade Gazette reported that the work, previously catalogued as “German, early 19th century”, could be worth tens of millions of dollars.
The work previously changed hands for around $19,000 (£12,039).
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (
pronunciation, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and “his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote”
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Has this painting been authoritatively identified as Da Vinci's? Something about this painting doesn't sit right with me… A bit too cartoonish for Leonardo, don't you agree? A fingerprint means nothing. Leonardo was a teacher and could have simply touched one his student's paintings!
That is very true. Also they say it is remarkably like… not that it is. Hopefully they will not jump to any conclusions too quickly jkust because they 'want it to be'.