what a choice, art expert Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, believes that 'by a process of elimination', the fresh-faced teenager, shown in profile, could be Bianca Sforza, daughter of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (1452-1508) and his mistress Bernardina de Corradis,
Prof Kemp believes the portrait, which measures 13ins by 9ins, must date from around 1496 when, aged 13 or 14, the 'Bella Principessa' married the Duke's army captain, Galeazzo Sanseverino, a patron of da Vinci's,
and all thanks to a fingerprint, a Paris laboratory has found that a fingerprint on the picture is 'highly comparable' to one on a da Vinci work in the Vatican, which was painted early in the artist's career when he was thought not to use assistants, well Canadian-born connoisseur, Peter Silverman, who paid roughly 19,000 dollars might have a lucky day!
Wednesday 14 October 2009
On The One Hand £12,000,
on the other £100 million!
what a choice, art expert Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, believes that 'by a process of elimination', the fresh-faced teenager, shown in profile, could be Bianca Sforza, daughter of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (1452-1508) and his mistress Bernardina de Corradis,
Prof Kemp believes the portrait, which measures 13ins by 9ins, must date from around 1496 when, aged 13 or 14, the 'Bella Principessa' married the Duke's army captain, Galeazzo Sanseverino, a patron of da Vinci's,
and all thanks to a fingerprint, a Paris laboratory has found that a fingerprint on the picture is 'highly comparable' to one on a da Vinci work in the Vatican, which was painted early in the artist's career when he was thought not to use assistants, well Canadian-born connoisseur, Peter Silverman, who paid roughly 19,000 dollars might have a lucky day!
what a choice, art expert Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, believes that 'by a process of elimination', the fresh-faced teenager, shown in profile, could be Bianca Sforza, daughter of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (1452-1508) and his mistress Bernardina de Corradis,
Prof Kemp believes the portrait, which measures 13ins by 9ins, must date from around 1496 when, aged 13 or 14, the 'Bella Principessa' married the Duke's army captain, Galeazzo Sanseverino, a patron of da Vinci's,
and all thanks to a fingerprint, a Paris laboratory has found that a fingerprint on the picture is 'highly comparable' to one on a da Vinci work in the Vatican, which was painted early in the artist's career when he was thought not to use assistants, well Canadian-born connoisseur, Peter Silverman, who paid roughly 19,000 dollars might have a lucky day!
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