Wednesday 13 May 2009

News from Florence-midnight

News from Florence midnight (GMT +1), January 17, 2009
Nicola Barbatelli is following the investigations taking place in Florence Italy by international art experts. The examination phases continue and we will soon have more information to post.

After the first investigation conducted in Florence Italy by international Leonardo da Vinci experts, results prove that this painting has a strong possibility to be the oldest portrait of Leonardo da Vinci in the world, overwriting that of the alledged copy in the Museum of Uffizi. It's almost certain that this painting is the original of the one hanging in the Uffizi museum, and possessing the very best in artistic technique and quality (and we haven't overlooked the likelihood that it could have been created in Acerenza Italy).

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Nicola Barbartelli

"Nicola Barbatelli, Medieval historian, Fr. Comm. Academic Constantinian, historian and researcher of the O.S.M.T.J.,personal advisor to the grand master of the order, SE. Fr. Alberto Zampolli, was studying the art collection of a family with Lucanian origins in the Basilicata region in 2008. The portrait was hidden beneath another painting and was very deteriorated and scratched much different than you see it now. During the first process of cleaning and removal of paint, the figure of this particular subject appeared. A Carbon 14 analysis was done on the wood supporting the canvas and dated the material to the late 15th or early 16th century; a time when Leonardo was still alive. But experts stress the age of the wood doesn't necessarily mean the portrait was painted at that time. Da Vinci fans say that it could have been a work of Da Vinci himself as the back of the canvas carries the Latin words "PINXIT MEA" written in reverse--meaning "painted by myself" which is one of the artist's established trademarks. The name of the artist who painted the image is still being investigated, but experts did rule out that it is was a Leonardo da Vinci self-portrait."