La bella principessa

It's the flip side to the multimillion-dollar counterfeit. The art world is abuzz with the recent discovery that a portrait thought to be the drawing of an unknown 19th century German artist is now being attributed to the Italian master Leonardo da Vinci. And the way the revelation was made is straight out of a Sherlock Holmes novel: researchers traced the portrait to the artist using a 500-year-old fingerprint. The 13-by-9-inch portrait, which has now been dubbed La Bella Principessa, is a delicate profile of a young aristocratic Milanese woman, drawn with pen, chalk and ink on an animal skin known as vellum. It was bought two years ago by an anonymous Swiss collector at the Ganz Gallery in New York for about $19,000. Experts now put the possible value of the artwork at upwards of $150 million.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1930431,00.html#ixzz1o9mlbsL0

This is another Leonardo's supposed painting! This portrait seems to be a real Leonardo Da Vinci painting. Really interesting, isn't it?

It was supposed to be a anonymous XIX century german portrait but now all the evidences point to the italian genius.

I was really excited when I saw the new National Geographic from March with a new Leonardo's portrait in its cover!!! That was a special edition about Leonardo and La bella principessa (wich seems to be Bianca Sforza from the Milan Sforza's family), I bought it immediately, with the DVD too.

That's a good new, it shows me that study art has a future, there are a lot of things to discober, a lot of things we can suppose on, a lot of new artists to find or old artists to study and learn for.

Art returns to Renaissance this March, to Leonardo Da Vinci special world. And I love it :)