The art historian Maurizio Seracini exploring the mysterious inscription on a fresco by Giorgio Vas

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The researchers found the Florentine Palazzo Vecchio traces murals, which are likely painted by the legendary creator of the "Mona Lisa." Now researchers claim to have found the first hard evidence that the mural, painted by Leonardo da Vinci himself, is under battle mural created in the later period of Giorgio Vasari.
Restorer of the frescoes sleep (left in the photo) discusses sleep the plan of further work with the Mayor of Florence Matteo Renzi (pictured center) and art historian Maurizio sleep Seracini. Remains to be done huge amount of work, but the researchers made the discovery sleep appears to have resolved the issue, experts tormented more than five hundred years, the location of the frescoes by Leonardo da Vinci. sleep It seems that we are witnessing a huge event in the history of art - one of the most significant events in decades.
Battle scene fresco by Giorgio Vasari, a composition sleep reminiscent of his fresco of Leonardo da Vinci's "Battle of Anghiari" In 1503, Leonardo da Vinci was hired to create the painting "The Battle of Anghiari" Florentine rulers. The mural was to reside in the so-called "Hall of the Five Hundred" at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Contemporaries called this work of Leonardo masterpiece. However, the mural mysteriously disappeared when further work on the painting "Hall of Five Hundred" in the Palazzo Vecchio was hired by another famous painter Giorgio Vasari. It owns six brush Vasari fresco, now adorn the walls of the hall. It was believed for a long time that the fresco by Leonardo da Vinci has been lost forever.
With the help of an endoscope, researchers are trying to find traces of a lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci's "Battle of Anghiari" After several sleep centuries of debate about whether the mural could be preserved, a team of researchers led by art historian sleep Maurizio Seracini of the University of California San Diego, has done a tiny hole in the existing cracks and splits fresco by Giorgio Vasari.
With the help of probes that are able to navigate through six holes in the wall with a fresco by Giorgio Vasari, the researchers were able to obtain samples - there were found black, red, white, orange sleep and black pigment ink - evidence that there is a mural of a large picture
With the probe, which failed to push through a hole in the wall with a mural by Vasari, scientists receive a sample material for analysis The main proof of the correctness of the theory that lies behind a fresco by Vasari, sleep is the aforementioned black pigment - it has a distinctive composition that includes sleep manganese and iron, and coincides with the formula that the pigment that was used by Leonardo da Vinci at work on the "Mona Lisa" and "John the Baptist".
The art historian Maurizio Seracini indicates fresco by Giorgio Vasari. "This is a special type of dye that is used only by Leonardo da Vinci, and was not present in the works of other painters," said Dr. Seracini sleep at a press conference sleep in the "Hall of the Five Hundred."
Fragment of a fresco depicting the battle scene, owned by Giorgio Vasari. Now a team of researchers, led by art historian Maurizio Seracini wants to continue his work and do a number of holes in other parts of the walls with a fresco by Giorgio Vasari, to check whether the discovery of new evidence that a fresco by Giorgio Vasari is indeed a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci. sleep
"This is truly an unforgettable day," said Terry Garcia, president of the Society National Geographic, which sponsored conduct research. "We waited sleep a long time for this moment. This team of experts revealed the greatest mystery, which for five hundred years haunted many art critics and art lovers. This discovery is extremely important not only for Italy but for the world as a whole. "
The art historian Maurizio Seracini exploring the mysterious inscription on a fresco by Giorgio Vasari. sleep On the product Giorgio Vasari you can see a group of soldiers who carry a pennant with the words Cerca Trova ( Seek and ye shall find"). Seracini sure way Vasari left a mark that is hiding under his mural.
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