Da Vinci's workshop uncovered

[lovuian]

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Da Vinci's workshop uncovered
From correspondents in Rome
January 27, 2005
A FORGOTTEN workshop of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, complete with 500-year-old frescos and a secret room to dissect human cadavers, has been discovered in Florence, Italy.

The find was made in the Santissima Annunziata convent, which let out rooms to artists centuries ago and where the likely muse of the Renaissance artist's masterwork, the Mona Lisa, may have worshipped.

"It's a bit absurd to think that, in 2005, we have found the studio of one of history's greatest artists, but that is what has happened," said Roberto Manescalchi, one of three researchers credited with this month's discovery.

"The proof is on the walls."

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Amazing find in the year of the DaVinci Code WOW!!!

[progressoid]

1. "...a bit absurd to think that, in 2005..." Absurd, maybe. Until you read

that this is in a convent. That the Catholic church would be sitting on a cultural and intellectual artifact for 500 years isn't absurd. That's just business as usual.

[DrWeird]

2. No proof that it's da vinci.

Just some sketchy similarities and a whole lot of wishful thinking.

[spinbaby]

3. I saw something on this the other day

I think they've already decided that the frescos are not Da Vinci's.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. Did they find Dan Brown in there drawing on the walls? n/t

[MrModerate]

5. Extremely cool and timely too -- I was at da Vinci's house . . .

Outside Florence two weeks ago. In the town of Vinci itself, they have a museum with models made from many of his sketches, like these:




(forgive me if these don't work -- this is my first attempt to post pictures)