professional artist easel That Leonardo was by this time a facile draughtsman is evidenced by his vigorous pen-and-ink sketch–now in a private collection in Paris–of Bernardo Bandini, who in the Pazzi Conspiracy of April 1478 stabbed Giuliano de’ Medici to death in the Cathedral at Florence during High Mass. The drawing is dated December 29, 1479, the date of Bandini’s public execution in Florence. Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy on April 15th, 1452, the illegitimate son of a young notary.
A computer analyst says he’s found all new images in Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper. He took a picture of the painting, reversed it, and put the flipped image on top of the first one. The result - the two figures on the end now look like they’re knights. The real Last Supper painting is on a wall in Milan, Italy. read more
Computer analyst Slavisa Pesci shows a reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” during a press conference in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, July 25, 2007. A computer analyst claims to have discovered new images in Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” one of the world’s most loved religious paintings. But some experts were skeptical, dismissing the claim as another spin-off of Dan Brown’s best-selling novel “The Da Vinci Code. Slavisa Pesci claims to have discovered new images in the 15th mural in the dining hall of Milan’s Santa Maria delle Grazie church by superimposing a reverse image on the original image. But Alessandro Vezzosi, a Leonardo expert and the director of a museum dedicated to the artist in his hometown of Vinci, was skeptical, saying “The Last Supper” was so degraded by time that it was difficult to draw any new conclusions. Reinterpretations of the painting have popped up ever since “The Da Vinci Code” fascinated readers and movie-goers with suggestions that one of the apostles sitting on Jesus’ right is Mary Magdalene, that the two had a child and that their bloodline continues. read more
