{"id":970,"date":"2012-03-13T19:56:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=970"},"modified":"2012-03-13T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T19:56:40","slug":"lost-da-vinci-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2012\/03\/13\/lost-da-vinci-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Da Vinci Mural?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New findings on lost mural<\/h1>\n
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This undated picture made available by the by the National Geographic, shows work on the search for Leonardo da Vinci's "The Battle of Anghiari" project, conducted in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 13 2012 at 09:53am
\nBy Sapa-AP<\/p>\n

The search for Leonardo da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari is
\nbeing conducted in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. The project is being led by the
\nNational Geographic Society and University of California, in co-operation with
\nthe city of Florence. Maurizio Seracini, the Italian engineer leading the search
\nfor the mural, said an analysis showed the red, black and beige paint found was
\nconsistent with organic paint Da Vinci used in his frescoes.<\/p>\n

Researchers may have discovered traces of a lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci by poking a probe through cracks in a 16th-century fresco painted on the wall of one of Florence\u2019s most famous buildings. The latest findings yesterday still leave much mystery in
\nthe hunt for the Battle of Anghiari<\/em>, a wall mural painted by Da Vinci
\nin Florence\u2019s storied Palazzo Vecchio.<\/p>\n

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The hunt for the unfinished mural has captivated art historians for centuries. Some believe Da Vinci\u2019s mural, which he began in 1505 to commemorate the 15th-century victory by Florence over Milan at the medieval Tuscan town of Anghiari, may be hidden behind a newer wall, which was frescoed over decades later by Giorgio Vasari.\u00a0 Battle of Anghiari<\/em> was unfinished when Da Vinci left Florence in 1506.<\/p>\n

Maurizio Seracini, an Italian engineer from the University of San Diego, said that the fragments of colour retrieved by the probe in the palace\u2019s hall were consistent with pigments used by Da Vinci.\u00a0 He said an analysis showed that the red, black and beige
\npaint found was consistent with the organic paint Da Vinci used in his frescoes.
\nThe hunt for the missing mural is being led by the National Geographic Society and the University of California in partnership with the city of Florence. \u00a0Seracini and his colleagues noted that some black material found behind Vasari\u2019s wall showed a chemical composition similar to that found in two Da Vinci works, Mona Lisa<\/em> and St John the Baptist<\/em>. Previously, using radar and X-rays, Seracini and his team found a cavity behind Vasari\u2019s fresco that they think could indicate a space between the two walls.<\/p>\n

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New findings on lost mural March 13 2012 at 09:53am By Sapa-AP The search for Leonardo da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari is being conducted in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. The project is being led by the National Geographic Society and University of California, in co-operation with the city of Florence. Maurizio Seracini, the Italian engineer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news","7":"category-preservation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}