Italian expert claims to have found another Mona Lisa “possibly” Da Vinci – Financial Journal

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An Italian researcher claims to have found in Russia similar to “La Gioconda” box and says he has found elements that make it compatible with works of Leonardo da Vinci, though she says it’s just a hypothesis.

Silvano Vinceti, which has promoted this year in Florence search for the remains of the woman who could be a model for the “Mona Lisa”, today told Efe he received a call from a Russian tycoon who turned to his expertise in this area to investigate the origin of a painting from his private collection in 2011.

“We were commissioned in 2011. This magnate, which I can not say the name, contacted me that we should be to St. Petersburg and did a test on this picture, “he said.

The picture is a female figure much like the Gioconda portrayed by Da Vinci in the early sixteenth century, but in this version the woman appears between two large columns, as in one of the preparatory drawings attributed to Leonardo work.

Vinceti said that, after studying the work by Various techniques, “are multiple indicators that evoke the great Tuscan genius” but he noted, “it is a hypothesis.”

“All elements derived from this long and fascinating adventure of research are available any. Personally I would simply say that the possibility that it may belong to the hand of Leonardo and a disciple is a worthy hypothesis “, also he said in a statement.

To outline this theory this Italian expert has used a “long and articulated research” that, in his view, has offered several tests.

First, an infrared ray examination “has shown the compliance of this drawing with the period in which Leonardo performed his works of art. “

He has compared this alleged Gioconda with a preparatory drawing of the original work kept in the Louvre and attributed to Leonardo by Carlo Pedretti, considered one of the greatest connoisseurs life and work of Da Vinci.

The comparison between the “Russian Gioconda” and said cardboard was “full overlap” between the two works, which also coincide in some features, such as the presence of two columns, in the younger age of the model and on her upper lip.

Third, the model found in Russian painting of the Mona Lisa and the Louvre have darker hands the face, a feature reminiscent of “chiaroscuro techniques that only Leonardo dominated”.

For all this scholar argues that “there is the possibility that Leonardo may have made a” Gioconda between columns ” unknown to most.

Vinceti confessed lack of certainty about the authenticity of the painting and stressed that “these elements founded a possibility.”

“I do not say it another Gioconda of Leonardo. I say that all these elements provide the basis of a possibility (…). Surely they are all very interesting and highly intriguing indicators that show a series of coincidences that can be casual or attributable to Leonardo “, he said.

Vinceti is an Italian promoter who chairs the National Committee for the Recovery of Assets Historical, Cultural and Environmental a private association, despite its name, declares as its goal “to solve puzzles related to great characters” Italian

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