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Mon 03 Mar 2009The artist as a (relatively) young man?
Research into the ‘Irish’ province of Basilicata in southern Italy has unearthed a painting that experts are now claiming is the only image of the younger Leonardo da Vinci yet discovered. But did he paint it himself?
ALMOST 500 YEARS after his death, the life and genius of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) continue to fascinate the world. He knew fame and celebrity during his lifetime and many aspects of his life and work are well documented. But much of it is unaccounted for: we know little of his private life, for example. Nor do we really know what he looked like as a young or middle-aged man, as all portraits in existence depict the balding da Vinci in the autumn of his life.
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