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    Friday, July 01, 2005

    New Leonardo Da Vinci drawing discovered in London


    "Art curators have uncovered a new Leonardo Da Vinci drawing hidden beneath the surface of one of the Renaissance artist's most celebrated works, Britain's National Gallery said on Friday. Da Vinci painted two versions of The Virgin of the Rocks between 1483 and 1508. London's picture has long been regarded as an inferior copy of the original now in the Louvre in Paris. National Gallery curators found the uncompleted drawing while researching how Da Vinci copied his original, using infrared scanning to see through layers of paint on the London picture. They discovered two levels of underdrawing: one for The Virgin of the Rocks, and another beneath for a different picture, showing the Virgin with outstretched arms."-reuters
    -ABSOUTELY INCREDIBLE!!! what gets me is that we are still finding lost painting of these masters. Where are the new masters? Art just seems more fleeting the more recent it is, which is sad because if anything there is so much more great stuff out there. MAybe it is that it takes time to become a classic/ masterpiece and you dont get any credit in the art world unless you are dead or change society.
    Leonardo minus Donatello, Raphael, & Michelangelo

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