Oct 14
Art experts believe they have identified a new Leonardo da Vinci— in part by examining a fingerprint on the canvas.
Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, said Tuesday that a fingerprint on what was presumed to be a 19th-century German painting of a young woman has convinced art experts that it’s actually a da Vinci.
This is awesome sauce.
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Holy sh*t. That is amazing!
pretty good. bout for $19,000 and now its worth potentially 150 Mil. good return on investment. sign me up.
Hmmm… Possible wise-ass responses:
“Tonight, on a very special episode of Antiques Roadshow…”
or, “I smell a new Dan Brown novel!”
Seriously, though. This is actually pretty neat.
thought this was a weird joke article about FIGUREprints. clicked the link and realized i misread ur post. da vinci rules, there was a great doc on history channel this very morning about his inventions.
There’s a code to the location of the Book of Secrets to the Universe hidden in the knots of her hair-net. See if you can find it.
What I find most interesting (other than the fact they could figure this out) is the psychology of the whole event. That the value of this painting would change by several orders of magnitude is astounding. The artwork has not changed, the subject is constant. Each brush stroke exactly the same as before, but attribute from some German painter, to da Vinci and it makes it so much better? Course we nerds aren’t much better, but funny still
No different from buying an Xbox signed by the Epic’s dev team versus buying signed by some dude on the street. Who has left their mark on something dramatically alters it’s value.
Strange how something can be misappropriated so badly though. They were 4 centuries off in placing it’s origin.
The sad/curious thing about this is that as digital art becomes more prominent things like this will get rarer and rarer. I mean in 500 years will they be able to identify a work as an original Johnson?
As I am a part time dabbler in the creative arts, I have a friend is constantly on me about not doing more canvas work – digital is so much faster that I’ve become lax in my technique (Holding a paint brush feels weird anymore and I keep looking for that undo button when I goof). His point is that there is more money to be made on canvas rather than digital- I point to Scott and say, “See?!”