Researcher Carla Glori explains that the genius from Vinci modified the wedding portrait of the young bride to hide her identity, after her father had been defeated and banned. The bridge behind her is Bobbio’s.
Bobbio (near Piacenza) in the background of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
A recent discovery relaunches the thesis of researcher Carla Glori who locates the landscape in Bobbio, seen from the Malaspina Dal Verme castle
Leonardo’s bear sold at auction: 12 million British pounds for a 7-centimeter drawing
Christie’s announcement from London: the sale is scheduled for July 8, a record price is expected. Story of a tiny but very precious masterpiece
«Leonardo», still a success: the audience reaches 5.8 million with a 23.9% share
The second episode of the TV series, aired last night in première on RAI 1, has had optimal reception. The first episode had totaled over 6.9 million viewers.
Milan, Leonardo was inspired by Dürer and Mantegna for his drawings in the Sforza’s Castle
A year after the discovery of the drawings in the Planks’ Room, here is a preview of the studies results.
«Leonardo Da Vinci never painted the Battle of Anghiari»
To these conclusions came a pool of experts that present the results of a research lasting almost six years in a volume of 610 pages.
The Planks’ Hall in the Sforza’s Castle reopens: Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings will be visible until September
It has been reopened to the public, though temporarily, the Plank’s Hall in the Sforza’s Castle in Milan. A place that was admired by almost 350 thousand visitors during the celebration of the five hundred years from the death of Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s whale was a true fossil, not a monster of fantasy
A team of researchers from the University of Pisa and the University of San Diego in California (Usa) has analyzed from both the literary and paleontological point of view some excerpts from the Arundel Codex. And they discovered that the Italian genius has made an important contribution to paleontology.
«Selling the Mona Lisa to save the culture»: the idea dividing France
Stéphane Distinguin, digital consultant from Paris, has launched the proposal on a magazine. A quip? «No. The only solution for a system in pieces. Let Bezos buy it»
The Last Supper by Warhol in Milan, the meeting of the king of Pop Art with Leonardo Da Vinci’s genius
A Chronicle of the great American artist’s stay in Milan, for the exhibition of his works dedicated to the Last Supper at the Stelline.