3 new Da Vinci pieces discovered?

First Ive heard of it and Id love to hear more.Please keep us updated.
Da Vinci Rocks!!!!!

Haven't heard of it yet. That would be awesome if it's true.

There are questions, if frescoes in a Florence convent be the work of Leonardo da Vinci. (It wasn't a secret room, it was just forgotten that this room was there.)

I wonder if they are using carbon dating to help pin point the time frame.

I haven't read about this for a few weeks, but I seem to remember that Leonardo did live or work in that building or the one next door, which used to be contiguous but was walled off in intervening years. I'll see if I saved more links on that.

Keep this thread alive. I'm extremely interested.

Ok, Merry, we will. I'll go see if I can find more links.

I haven't been in the building, but I've stayed a block away three times - the piazza Santa Santissima Annunziata is right at the tippy top of my favorite piazzas, re beauty and design history.

"Manescalchi speculated that da Vinci had assistants in his workshop and probably used a "secret" corner room for his dissections of human corpses, aimed at improving his understanding of anatomy."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=570&e=1&u=/nm/20050125/sc_nm/arts_italy_davinci_dc


If dissections were performed, it's quite possible there could be multiple DNA traces from the cadavers still present. It might help to prove the existence of a physician-like person occupying the premises at some point.

Perhaps it would be beneficial to let forensic scientists examine the room.

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thank you!
You have given me something which might interest the English class I run! It is a good topic.
Really interesting.
Sorry I have nothing to add of interest really.

Website with details about Leonardo's frescoes
Hi everybody,
i'm Paolo, the man that have supported researchers studies
with graphic improvements.

I've stopped here on this forum cause i've seen very interested people about this discover, so i'm just subscribed.

I can tell you that the discover is absolutely true and, probably, very important to re-date (maybe) in the future some details about life of Leonardo.

Of course, the research will go on and on.

People really interested in, can visit site: www.graficaeucenter.it
section: Expertise e Pubblicazioni
where can find articles just published on italian arts and scientific magazines.

Sorry but the articles are totally in italian language.
Soon (probably in summer) will be published an english book
that will describe all the steps did to arrive to this important discover.

'NJoy

Thank you, gengis, for finding us here. Welcome to a2k. Some on the site do speak italian and some of us are learning it. Luukas is italian. (There are threads about italy from time to time.)

We'd appreciate hearing about it when the book comes out in english. Please put us on your "interested" list..

No problem..
Thank you for answer, ossobuco.

No problem, i'll tell you when something new will happen...

Have you ever been in Florence ?
'cause OSSOBUCO is the name of a typical florentine's dish
made with veal meat.......very strange...(maybe you know this)

Bye to everybody

I do know about ossobuco, yes, I even cook it once in a while, though with beef, not veal. I had Ossobuco in Modena once.

I picked the name because I like the sound of the word. I didn't understand at the time that I would keep the word I picked as an internet name for a long time...

The absolutely best ossobuco I have ever had was not in Italy but on the Big Island of Hawaii, at an inn called Kilauea Lodge in the town of Volcano. And the chef was German!!!

Beef, not veal...
It's incredible..,
i stopped here to explain something about Leonardo da Vinci
and i became involved in food's arguments...!

Ossobuco, you're right; the dish called "ossobuco" is made with beef meat, please forgive my error caused by my unperfect english, too.

Hey i heard that too! It was on the news that someone was renovating a building in Rome and found 3 new Da Vinci pieces! I am obsessed with Leonardo at the min, as MATERIAL GIRL will know, I have been intrigued in his work since i began reading the Da Vinci Code. I even booked a holiday so i could go to the Louvre, if anyone can tell me more about these new pieces i would be very happy!!!

hi wales-rules

did you see the series on Leonardo's life recently on BBC? it was very good, well researched and atmospheric

- I don't think you'd have wanted to be downwind of him! He wore the same clothes 24 hours a day and didn't even remove his boots for months on end!

and utterly driven by his competitive streak.

Are you enjoying the Da Vinci code? I bought it but haven't read it yet.

Wales_rules, the Leonardo pieces were found in Firenze (Florence). We have an article and some links about it on the first page of this topic...

Gengis, I think ossobuco is made with primarily with veal, which is young beef, in Italy; I just meant that I've used older beef when I've cooked it myself. I've also had it cooked with lamb, but that was in Napa, California, not Italy.

We do tend to veer off topic on a2k. Sometimes the tangents are quite interesting, and we usually do come back to the subject discussion. Going off topic is frowned on more in the topics devoted to politics and philosophy.