Thursday, January 26, 2012

Mystery of a Masterpiece

Last night, there was a fascinating NOVA show on PBS. Experts were investigating whether a portrait of a girl on vellum (shown above) is really a Leonardo Da Vinci. They think it was cut from an old book of the period (they found the book in a museum in Poland).
Link to article about the story in the Guardian.
Here's the link to the show which you can watch online if you missed it.
I blogged about this picture earlier and said I thought it looked to me like it might be authentic. That was just my gut feeling based on the style of the face and execution of the drawing.

3 comments:

heather noye said...

looks very interesting! i'm an art history geek anyways so this is right up my alley. i got the link you posted on twitter. i'll have to check it out tonight. Thanks!

Amy Crehore said...

Yep! Do.

unimportant said...

This was a great episode of Nova. I feel bad for the previous owners who sold it for $20,000.