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Is This the Face of Young Leonardo Da Vinci?

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 5 years 8 months 4 weeks ago

YouTube: After five centuries, some experts believe the face of Leonardo da Vinci as a young man has been found.
Is this the face of the young Leonardo da Vinci?

The sketch was discovered when an Italian science reporter spotted a nose drawn amidst da Vinci's writing in a codex on the flight of birds.

He enlisted the help of art historians and police forensic experts to find out exactly what he was looking at.

They together revealed the secrets of the full sketch brought to light for the first time in five centuries.

It bore a distinct likeness to self portraits by the da Vinci when he was old.

Criminal investigation techniques were used to digitally age the new portrait and it was found to be identical to the familiar old da Vinci.

The science reporter, Piero Angela explained his findings at a news conference in Rome.

[Piero Angela, Science Reporter]:
"It is a very important contribution that allows us to rethink what was Leonardo's image as a young man. What we see there is not the old, bearded man with long and white hair that we are used to. He's a handsome man, he looks like a film actor that will certainly enter Leonardo's iconography from now on."

Leonardo experts 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."

11 Comments

I think Leo was just having a grilled cheese, and dropped it on his notebook and it made a funny grease stain. Since Leo was probably frugal he just painted over the page so he could reuse it.

Handsome? you western devils present the oddest taste when it comes to concept of beauty

I posted a clip from TED about something similar a while ago.
The similarities in the face are stunning and make the accuracy of this discovery even more real.

Check it out here:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-true-face-of-Leonardo-da-Vinci

Indeed, he really looks like Nicolas Cage!
http://images.askmen.com/galleries/men/nicolas-cage/pictures/nicolas-cage-picture-2.jpg

I dunno, I'm seeing Matthew Macfadyen a little there. I pick him to play Leo in the movie:
http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:SL9L_hQ_nCCKXM:http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r180/PunksterRM/MatthewMacfadyen2.jpg

http://api.ning.com/files/uE*YK1QrjQJXSjkr2ZmoKnyLtBIiyjd7XP*YBAVTuoDF8zfaoeZuOrey3xpEtFg-b857AmmacgZZ7MvxqckC8j1KSBW71N6Q/carriage2a.jpg

Hm... he looks bored.

I'm sure I'd look handsome if I made a self-portrait too...people wouldn't necessarily agree that the portrait was of me, but 500 years later, nobody would know.

That's not Leo. That's obviously Volumptuous.

Am I the only one thinking, "Who the hell cares?" You'd think they'd discovered the fountain of youth or something.

>> ^Xax:
Am I the only one thinking, "Who the hell cares?" You'd think they'd discovered the fountain of youth or something.

Thank god I'm not the only one! thank you!

I think andy Dick should play him. He's got a big nose too.

>> ^ravioli:
Indeed, he really looks like Nicolas Cage!
http://images.askmen.com/galleries/men/nicolas-cage/pic
tures/nicolas-cage-picture-2.jpg

KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR FUCKING HONEY!

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