SECRETS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI PAINTING LAID BARE BY NEW SCANNING TECHNIQUE (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Monday, September 29, 2014, 18:35

Three versions of Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine, discovered by French scientist Pascal Cotte. Photograph: Lumiere Technology

The secrets of one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings have been revealed by a French scientist using a new technique.

Pascal Cotte has spent three years using reflective light technology to examine Lady with an Ermine, which was believed to have been painted between 1489 and 1490.

It had been thought that the work had always included the ceremonial animal, but Cotte’s efforts have shown that Leonardo painted one portrait without the ermine and two with alternative versions of the fur.

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