
Peter Silverman - Leonardo's Lost Princess (retail)

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Added: Sep 22, 2021 (3.8 Yrs Ago)
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How a strangely credited $19,000 image turned out to be a $100-million work by Leonardo da Vinci—an accurate art-world investigator storyIn delayed 2010, art enthusiast Peter Silverman unveiled that the "German, early 19th-century" face he'd purchased for $19,000 was, actually, a formerly unfamiliar drawing by Leonardo da Vinci—a beautiful representation of Bianca Sforza, made 500 years back. In Leonardo's Missing Queen, Silverman provides a fascinating first person account of how his original accusations of the face's provenance were verified repeatedly by researchers and craft specialists. The path is described by him to certification, fraught with debate and resistance. The twists and turns of the intriguing, decade-long mission guide from art history to cutting-edge technology, and from a Brand New York art gallery to Paris, Milan, Zurich, and fundamentally a Warsaw collection where in actuality the ultimate, persuasive proof that the face was certainly by da Vinci was found.Takes an up-close look at the workings of the art world and at numbers varying from sellers and enthusiasts to some alleged forger Covers present medical methods employed to research and authenticate works of art, such as for instance carbon-dating and cutting-edge photography Utilizes Silverman's sketching being an entree into Leonardo da Vinci's world: his Business, his style, and his techniques Examines the intersection of art and technology in the certification procedure, relating to the work of the person who embodied that intersection Discovering the strategies nearly lost to history, the book is perfect reading for art enthusiasts and everyone thinking about an incredible situation of "whodunit."
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