NEWS: Imagine Stumbling Into One of Da Vinci's Workshops...

"Every piece of information helps us to understand not only the person but the historical climate at that time," said Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, the director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. But she cautioned against jumping to conclusions about authorship before rigorous analysis.

"It's an absolutely interesting discovery," said Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci, in Vinci, who said he was convinced that Leonardo worked in the space and considers it possible that he lived there, too. […]

On one side of the wall, a fresco of three birds hovers over the harsh fluorescent light of an emergency exit at the Institute for Military Geography. On the other side, a larger, ruined fresco sits at the foot of a Renaissance staircase in a 14th-century monastery.

All it took to connect the two was observation, said Roberto Manescalchi, 51, a cartographer at the military institute. "It was always here," he said. "All we had to do was look."

Even if Leonardo did not paint the frescoes, Mr. Manescalchi and the other researchers say, it is possible that a workshop student did. To bolster their argument, they turned to historical accounts of Leonardo's presence at the convent in the early 1500's.

faustroll said:
Dan Brown wrote that silly book, the Da Vinci Code, which claims that the HolyGrail was really mary Magdaline, that she and jesus had kids who became the Merrovingian line of French rulers, among other interesting but implausable things.

faustroll said:
Dan Brown wrote that silly book, the Da Vinci Code, which claims that the HolyGrail was really mary Magdaline, that she and jesus had kids who became the Merrovingian line of French rulers, among other interesting but implausable things.

hoisin said:

Thanks for ruining a book I'm a chapter into.

hoisin said:

[Edited on Jan 15, 2005 by hoisin]