Rome to promote his program on a RAI channel that the drawing was hidden under writing in one of Leonardo’s notebooks. Angela said he consulted with two face surgeons in Rome so they could compare known portrait drawing of Leonardo as an old man with the drawing of the young man. The original drawing is contained in the so-called Codex on the flight of birds, which is kept in Turin’s Royal Library. Pastry chef Ernie Rich applies the finishing touches to the largest chocolate and vanilla Girl Scout cookie ever made in Philadelphia on February 27. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
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Hidden under layers of thick writing on a page of the "Codex on the Flight of Birds," the sketch was spotted by the Italian scientific journalist Piero Angela, who will present images of his discovery on Italian state television RAI Saturday. Studying a high quality facsimile of the codex, Angela first detected the faint form of a nose behind the heavy black text of the codex’s tenth page, he told a news conference Friday. He enlisted the help of art historians, Carabinieri police forensic experts and RAI’s graphic department to turn the black text covering the sketch white, then the same tone as the paper. Criminal investigation techniques were used to digitally correlated the sketch with the known portrait and "age" it with facial reconfiguration technology, sinking the cheeks, hollowing the eyes and furrowing the brow. Leonardo expert Carlo Pedretti at California University described the sketch as "one of the most important acquisitions in the study of Leonardo, in the study of his image, and in the study of his thought too.
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The damaged oil-on-panel portrait was discovered by Nicola Barbatelli, a medieval historian, while he was researching the archive and picture collection of an aristocratic family at Acerenza (population 3,000), an ancient village perched on a rock above the river Bradano near Potenza in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. Mr Barbatelli, who found the painting by chance while researching the history of the Templar Knights and the First Crusade, told The Times that although Leonardo came from Vinci in Tuscany and worked in Florence and Milan, he was known to have visited Basilicata. Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci at Vinci, where the artist was born in 1452, said initial examination of the painting showed it was a Renaissance era original and not a later copy. Announcing the discovery on the Museo Ideale website, Professor Vezzosi said that the newly found portrait was “very interesting in itself, and potentially important as a new element in helping to put together the mosaic of what Leonardo looked like. The portrait is to go on show at the end of next month as part of an exhibition on Leonardo at a recently opened museum at Vaglio, near Potenza, together with other paintings, drawings and documents loaned from the Museo Ideale.
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Linda and Alexander Cappello were honored by the board of trustees and the council of the Children’s Burn Foundation at the Giving New Hope gala held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. Linda Cappello is a dedicated board member of the council and also serves on the boards of the International Medical Corps, a global relief agency, and Las Floristas, which supports Handicapped Children’s Clinics of Rancho Los Amigos National Medical Center in Downey. Along with her membership in the Blue Ribbon of the Music Center and the Friends of Heritage Preservation, she and Alex chair the Tradition of Hope Gala to benefit Augie’s Quest, the Muscular Dystrophy/ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) initiative. Along with the above, he is vice chairman of the Marymount College board of trustees and serves on the boards of the Pacific Council on International Policy, Rand’s Center for Middle East Public Policy, the Rand Russian Forum, and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, City of Hope, the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, ALS Therapy Development Institute, Patriotic Defense Group and the Friends of Florence.
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