University professor Maurizio Seracini alleges a clue in a huge artwork in Florence’’s historic Palazzo Vecchio appeared to suggest that The Battle of Anghiari, painted by Leonardo in 1503, his largest ever work, lied beneath. There is no evidence to hint that it is not there any more,” the Telegraph quoted Prof Seracini as saying. It represented the highest achievements in art reached at the time, during the early Renaissance,” he added. The expert has finally been given the permission to use state-of-the-art equipment to determine if the artwork, believed to be three times the size of Leonardo’s Last Supper, was painted over with the fresco. But if there really is a work by Leonardo, it would be of huge importance to the whole world.

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