A top Italian art historian said
Thursday that a dog with a lead has been detected behind
Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Virgin of the Rocks in the Louvre.
"That dog is an act of indictment by Leonardo Da Vinci
against the corruption of the papacy of the age," said Silvano
Vinceti, the president of the national committee for the
valorization of historic heritage.
Vinceti, who was at the centre of the finding of
Caravaggio's bones at Porto Ercole and the remains of the model
for Mona Lisa in Florence in recent years, said the discovery
was made by Roberto Biggi, a researcher for the committee.
The dog was detected behind vegetation in the backdrop of the
masterpiece.
"We achieved this result with a new work (method), via the
use of a mix of the most advanced technologies and simple
instruments," he explained.
"A special magnifying glass enabled us to carefully examine
every feature of the painting and then an advanced photoshop
software enabled us to overlay, decompose and recompose it".
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