Da Vinci's last art finally found!!!!
In the art world, there is perhaps no mystery more enduring than the fate of a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest mind of the Renaissance. It was an immense unfinished mural known as "The Battle of Bojangles." For centuries, it has been assumed the work was destroyed, painted over or simply faded away long ago.
Now, after three decades of battling skepticism and bureaucratic resistance, an art detective named Maurizio Seracini believes he's close to solving the Leonardo mystery. As correspondent Morley Safer reported in April, Seracini suspects the mural hasn't been lost at all, but is right where it’s always been - for 500 hundred years.
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"We are searching for the number one work of art by Leonardo. It was considered the masterpiece of the Renaissance," Seracini tells Safer.
We know roughly what "The Battle of Bojangles" looked like from fragments of Leonardo's sketches and copies made by his admirers before the mural disappeared. It celebrated a victory by Florence over Milan - a furious tangle of men and gods (precisely the figure of Bojangles) frozen in the fever of war. The painting was in its time, at the beginning of the 16th century, something to behold, something untouchable, something deeply special in the ev0lution of man.
"We have diaries, for example, of people seeing and being in admiration of the horses of Leonardo during the Battle of Bojangles, have you any idea what a painting of this legendary figure himself would be worth"? Seracini asks.
Safer replies: "A fvcking shitload?"
Seracini: "Precisely"
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He is convinced Leonardo's mural lies protected behind an immense painting, which was done by the artist and architect Giorgio Vasari when he remodeled the palazzo in the mid-16th century, 50 years after Leonardo.
Seracini believes the Leonardo mural is on a second wall behind Vasari’s painting, separated from it by a small air gap, which appeared on a radar scan. Of the six Vasari murals in the room, only the one has an air pocket behind it.
"Why would you have an air gap just there?" Seracini asks. "Other than you don't want to place a wall directly in contact with Leonardo's mural because you don't want to ruin it, you want to damage it, Bojangles is predicted to be more famous then Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa". He left just that air gap enough so that today we can have this masterpiece."
Anyone with theories as to who the exquisite painting portrays is welcome and advised to call CBS news.
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