Shrub_Out
08-21-2006, 10:49 PM
Normally, I'm more of a French Revolution type of gal than Italian Renaissance, but I can't help enjoying these hunts for lost masterpieces, regardless of the era.
For 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci's most important fresco was believed lost. Martin Gayford reports on exciting rumours of its discovery
Deep in the bowels of the British Museum is a tiny drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
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It depicts a miniature but terrible world - a place of desperate struggle in which armed cavalry flail and hack at one another, and horses sink teeth into each other's necks.
From a distance, the twisting, thrashing groups resemble some violent natural phenomenon: wreckage in a whirlpool, say, or the vortex of a typhoon.
Peering through a lens at this 500-year-old fragment of paper - which will be included in a forthcoming exhibition of Leonardo's drawings at the V & A next month - I am looking into the artist's mind.
This is one of the few remaining clues to the appearance of what should have been his greatest painting. Continued ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
For 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci's most important fresco was believed lost. Martin Gayford reports on exciting rumours of its discovery
Deep in the bowels of the British Museum is a tiny drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
[Only registered and activated users can see links]
It depicts a miniature but terrible world - a place of desperate struggle in which armed cavalry flail and hack at one another, and horses sink teeth into each other's necks.
From a distance, the twisting, thrashing groups resemble some violent natural phenomenon: wreckage in a whirlpool, say, or the vortex of a typhoon.
Peering through a lens at this 500-year-old fragment of paper - which will be included in a forthcoming exhibition of Leonardo's drawings at the V & A next month - I am looking into the artist's mind.
This is one of the few remaining clues to the appearance of what should have been his greatest painting. Continued ([Only registered and activated users can see links])