Decoding The Mystery of Da Vinci Portraits I SLICE HISTORY | FULL DOCUMENTARY
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- Leonardo da Vinci is not just the most famous and most admired of all painters - he is an icon, a superstar. Yet, the man himself remains elusive. Accounts during his lifetime describe a man too handsome, too strong, too perfect to be accurate.
But in 2008, the chance discovery in the South of Italy of an ancient portrait with strangely familiar features took the art world by storm. Could this be an unknown self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci?
Controversy erupts among the experts. The implications of such a discovery have far-reaching consequences for our understanding of the work of this great Renaissance master.
Documentary: Leonardo: The Mystery of The Lost Portrait
Directed by: Luca Trovellesi Cesana & Flore Kosinetz
Production: Zed & Sydonia Production
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Wouldn't Leonardo LOVE the current research and technology!! ❤😊
I think it would both confuse and frighten him..all of these advancements, after a few hundred years things have changed drastically.
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His brilliant mind might have grasped the passage of time and technological advancement better than we are able to imagine... Interesting...
Questa è la tua mente oscura che AMA
Dove c'è un emoji di cuore c'è dietro un morto vivente che ha cliccato un like
Yeah he would have a new medium to work with
This was very interesting. I saw the Mona Lisa on a trip to Paris in 1987. I was surprised by how small the painting was and I was impressed by the way the eyes really did seem to follow movement. The explanation of how that was accomplished was very informative and another example of hwo much of a genuis he truly was.
I saw it in 1983 and thought the same thing about it.
I saw it in 2007 i was stunned to see how small the Mona Lisa portrait is
Seen it in 98. Really a stunning piece.
I so enjoyed this program! . Wonder why the white feather didnt come off in the first cleaning ? Did like the feather though.
I really enjoyed this documentary. Thanks so much
This masterpiece is priceless!
I am intrigued that a lot of the research as to what his face looked like relied on two artworks. If working from life, as any artist knows, there will be big discrepancies between what they see and what actually goes down on a canvas - even if they work incredibly accurately. If the reference had been photographs I would be happy with the way the research was done but with artworks we deal with an imperfect science and so there is bound to be inaccuracies that would cause the final product to be flawed. That said, the thought that this might have been either done by the Master or that it might actually be his face is incredibly exciting and its worth the effort that was put into the research.
This was absolutely fascinating: very interesting and beautifully filmed. Thank you very much.
One can never get enough Leonardo. He was never satisfied, so why should we be? Grazie a tutti!
Well let’s face it, there aren’t enough real paintings by Leonardo. He didn’t leave us many.
Agrees!@@karaloca
@@karaloca, he was a busy guy.
Wonder if they ever considered the real possibility of Leonardo being the model for Verocchio’s David statue… as Leonardo was his apprentice in painting and sculpture around the age of 14!
Thank you so much for this upload it was one of the most interesting journey into art and personality. Leonardo must have been a very private person and that face is just fascinating. He looks exactly as intelligent as one would imagine this polyhistor. It was just as exciting for me to watch as if I were watching a film, a good film. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. If there is more, I mean, more films like this I wish to know about them.
Binocular vision is composed of slightly offset images. So when a sitter is told to look ahead at the artist, they have one eye looking straight at the easel and the other looking at the artist’s face. A similar thing occurs when one is doing a self portrait using a mirror of any type. One eye is on the mirror and thx other on the surface being painted. It is the human brain that interprets this irregularity as being a solid gaze at a particular point. Usually that it is at the artist.
So interesting never heard of this before. .Wondering if this shows up in other paintings ?
Add to which, while working on a self portrait in a mirror the artist has to shift his/her gaze when looking from one eye to the other. Because of this, the eyes would seem to be looking in slightly different directions.
I’m interested
Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Fascinating documentary
When I heard "The Restorer has finished cleaning the painting." I cringed. The Narrator might as well said that the evidence on top of the painting was all removed. Maybe they saved what was removed so the material used in "repairs" could be later examined and dated. It could help establish the Painting's chronological and geographical provenance, if the Painting had travelled from one location or country to another. Who knows what was "cleaned" away. 🤷
Great documentary!
Неужели такой великий мастер обладавший невероятной точностью мог допустить такую простую ошибку - так поднять глаз. Это невозможно, поверьте. Я сам ошибался, на другой день исправлял правильно. Но чтобы гениальный мастер не исправил такую очевидную диспропорцию, в это невозможно поверить.
15:35 no it confirms that the wood is of that age. The professor said it 10 seconds before: The wood was from a tree that grew between 1450 and 1517.
Exactly -- the age of the panel does not establish when the paint was applied.
Interesting video, especially about Leonardo da Vinci! I was lucky to see almost all his paintings, and i know about his reputation as an artist who rarely brings his work to the end.
Proving it’s from Leonardo is really hard. He produced so few paintings and he worked in a studio system where many painters worked on a picture. If i were a forger I would paint a lost wrk by Da Vinci.
And if you were an Italian mediaeval art historian you would discover a painting by him!
Ceci n’est pas un Leonardo! Anybody can see that!
Or he did a quicky in between (which is unlike him).
Hard to convince anybody it is 500 years old.
It isn't possible that Leonardo would have painted the eye on our right in such an incorrect position. It is way too high. Did he not know anatomy? Of course he did. The painting also lacks the sense of atmosphere (sfumato, or bluriness).
That stated, this video is excellently done. Thanks!!
100% agree I feel like he would never of wanted to leave his finger print on the canvas. And he would of worn something more colourful
@@AzossAwwYeaDa Vinci left finger prints because of his shading technique. He used his fingers. Those prints would not be visible when looking at the paintings with your eyes. It would take a microscope or other powerful instrument to see them. These things were not available in those medieval times.
Ma si guardava allo specchio
@@brettwalker4915La conoscenza è occultata alle masse per cui a quel tempo non esisteva tecnologia è obsoleta teoria
Fascinating documentary. I flavored every minute of it. I wish it would have been longer. Leonardo da Vinci nerve ceases to my curiosity. 👀
Beautiful light and passionate story from a love of a great soul and artist. Thank you so very much.❤️🔥
So there is 3 other mysteries... Who restored the painting and painted in the feather and WHY?... who painted the "copy" that is hanging in the Uffizi Gallery? He must have had access to the Lucanian painting... When?... Was he the restorer?... and IF he was, why did he paint the feather on the original and not his copy?
My impression is that the painting in the Lucanian museum dates from, at least, the Nineteenth century.
Because it uses Titanium White pigment, it could not have been added to the second portrait before the Twentieth Century when such was developed. Therefore the feather was added by someone other than whomever painted the first portrait.
Channelling Leonardo da vinci on CZcams. Insightful.
Excellent documentary 👏👏💯💯 Love watching it.
6:18 also the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans chased away the master builders and painters from what was left of Byzantium, from Bulgaria, Serbia etc where the Renaissance was already in its debuting stages. All that knowledge and skills got grouped together in the free cities of what's modern Italy and kick started the change.
I loved this so much ❤️
Superb! Great profile pic BTW ha! Quirky
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A wonderfully provocative film polluted by disgusting commercial interruptions.
Pinxet-Mea... "He painted me".
Or "His painting of me."
Could have just as easily have been a student of his that painted it could be a self portrait.
cool documentary, very informative
Painting isn't a science, painting isn't photography, I don't think measuring the features signifies proof if it could be Leonardo one way or the other.
Very interesting video
I LOVE these vids, you should go in deeper……LOL… Is also been said that Leonardo did a self-portrait on the Adoration of Magi, 1482. His standing on the left of the painting facing away from the center of the painting.
This is an excellent documentary. Who is the narrator?
In the Vatican, there is a fresco entitled Know the Cause which has a portrait of da Vinci.
His name was LEONARDO. Da Vinci is WHERE HE IS FROM. That’s like saying someone is called “of Pittsburgh.”
@@charliesmith_ or Palestrina, or Assisi
Yup
Super fun to watch
If one knew zero information about artists lives and art making, the mysteries would be plentiful.
I'd like to think it is by Leonardo but I highly doubt it. The far eye is off and too large. This is a common problem in 3/4 portraits but it's not something Leonardo would do at this stage in his life. Also, the mouth is not as refined as we see in other paintings he did. It may be him but I would say sadly that he didn't paint it.
I agree. I’d far more likely believe it was done by one of his pupils, like Salai who wasn’t a great painter but may have been his lover.
The Lucan portrait of Leonardo da Vinci is a late 15th- or early 16th-century portrait of a man that was discovered in 2008 in a cupboard of a private house in Italy.
Wonderful!!!
Amazing discovery of the Leonardo selfportrait ❤
An artist famous for NOT completing his commissions. The Mona Lisa is called that because ONE of the layers on the board WAS a version of Mona Lisa. But the painting that is visible is NOT Lisa Giaconda. It is a commissioned memorial painting of a rich man's dead mistress. Which was never QUITE finished and given to the bereaved patron.
I always thought it was a painting of your mum
TELL us you LOVE lecturing PEOPLE on subjects THAT are LOOSELY based ON historians' best GUESSES without telling US.
it was a pregnant or postpartum woman as her clothes tell
PORTRAIT OF YOUTH REMASTERED (C)2006
This is an original song written about a painting 🖼
The Shroud of Turin...
Primitive photograph of Leo?
Leonardo rimane sempre un mistero straordinario e sorprendente, genio italiano, grazie mi servirà per il mio video.
Leonardo always remains an extraordinary and surprising mystery, Italian genius, thanks I will need it for my video
This is interesting to say the least
AAaaarrrgghh! Yes it is a portrait of Leonardo,... a copy ! It is easy to see that this is NOT A PAINTING BY LEONARDO ! I could point out some obvious things, but i'lll leave that to others , the whole thing just has NO HALLMARKS of Leonardo. The whole thing,..." this is a portrait of Gal;i;eo", is TOO obvious , a ploy to get someone excited that the owner doesn't realize its value !.
Very interesting programme❤❤❤
I wish people doing voiceovers would make an effort to ensure the correct pronunciation of the Italian names and words!
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The only thing worse than subtitles is voice-overs. It makes it unwatchable for me.
basically a promotional "doc" for this guys gallery
Vincent van Gogh is another mystery. What did he look like?
There is an excellent portrait of van Gogh by John Russell, painted in 1886 (www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=john+russell+paintings).
we have one photo of him age 18
@@frenchartantiquesparis424 Yes, it gives you an idea what he looked like as an adult. Some of the photos I've seen are of his brother. Vincent didn't like being photographed. The self-portraits looked different depending on how he felt. Only the eyes remain the same. I focus on the eyes when I try to imagine what he looked like.
Why didn't the media make a huge sensation about this painting like they did with Salvatore Mundi?
Excellent 👍👏👍
Leonardo is one artist where a question about the authenticity of a painting to me it is obvious he did them but cool how they can prove it.
I doubt this is painted by Leonardo. No sfumato, way too dark ... this might be a work from one of his pupils, this might be a portrait of him - even though I doubt that as well.
To take finger prints off of a painting seems very futile to me. There are almost no paintings that have not been restaurated to a certain measure. So the finger prints they might find could be of anyone. And even if it was a finger print on wet paint, it could be one of his many apprentices. How else would he have taught them his sfumato technique.
Plus you have no fingerprint by the person to compare it to. As far as I know Leonardo is not on any fingerprint database.
@@hogwashmcturnip8930there are paintings that are painted only by Da Vinci that have his fingerprints on them. You can compare others to those finger prints. Da Vinci’s personal works did not include a pupils help. They were his alone. I do think the painting is Da Vinci, but who painted it? You never know. His apprentice could have painted this one.
In the 17th century there was a high demand for paintings from the 16th century, especially Caravaggio, so there were many copies. Caravaggio died in 1610 and Leonardo da Vinci in 1519. Interesting in Italian art was huge, and this is a lot of money, so copies and fakes appeard immediately after the deaf of these great asrtists. Nothing change today-greed!
@@izabellahartz6003 On top of that there were the legal copies: the ones that were made by apprentices of the artists in their own shop to practice. And Leonardo painted at least 3 Mona Lisas (that's the ones that still exist, there might have been more).
@@brettwalker4915 Thanks for informing me.
It's not a self-portrait of Leonardo.Its because it's painted after Leonardo died...I heard in one of the docu
Spectacular research - thx for this video and fascinating information . Love it ! ❤
appearance of movement, haahaa lol, luv the descriptive words
Top!!
His left eye is too high. A master can't make a mistake like this.
Why are you wearing purple plaid trouser?😢
Too much money, not enough sense.😊
You want him to wear cut off jeans shorts and crocs instead?
I am more impressed with whoever painted the feather.Absolute stroke of genius.
Reinstate it i say!
Need to look into the eyes under magnification.
Cinquecento is 15th Century not 16th as the narrator says.
If you knew much about Leonardo you would not be calling him ''Da Vinci' - as it means ''from Vinci'' it is not his name
If you really know Leonardo and if you also know the history of middle ages you will know that he is illegitimate child so he can't used his father's surname so they just call him "da Vinci" from Vinci village which he came from. That's the common customs in the middle ages.
It seems you only know Leonardo but you don't the history ig the laws and customs of the middle ages Europe. An illegitimate child is often called by the name of the place in which they are born.
Leonardo is in a fresco by Rafaël, don’t you know? It’s called the school of Athens.
I personally feel unconvinced. It is Leonardo, but not by. Way too simple and not even close to his genius
😆😆😆😆😆.....yes it would be worth an absolute fortune if they could only persuade everyone it was by Da Vinci..Basic facts tell you it wasn't - Da Vinci was reputed to be very handsome by his contemporaries, so he did not have a massive nose as the guy in this painting does (check the 3d). The painting just isn't great enough to be by him. If people would look at the statue of David that was purported to be modelled by a young Da Vinci they would get an idea of his face - a good looking slightly feminine face.
It's a handsome nose, but the eyes and mouth aren't.
When one sees the profile drawing and the painting side by side it's very obviously the same person
They just see what they want to see lol, might be, could be, quickly didn`t mention much on the fingerprints though there was three of them just mentioned about one before realising it was not his so no another so called self portrait lol
There's a reason they don't show us the painting til almost 4 minutes into the video. One glance & even a rank amateur like me can see that flat empty portrait is certainly not the work of an artistic genius. It's a poor excuse for a 50 minute video, but a good excuse for me to go find a great doc about Da Vinci & his works instead.
Did you finish watching the the documentary…? Do you know of the Lucan portrait?😂😂😂
I can’t believe this is even still a thing, it’s not only fiction but it’s catholic, is there anything else you need to know?
How can it he lost? It's right there.
"Tell me if I ever did a thing." Could also be a question to God....did I serve you?
He didn't paint the portrait exactly from the same angle as himself, he moved .I wish the documentary was concentrated to examine the painting. it was too fleeting,..to decide.
OngMelaka. Is a fake or not...
for Leonard Da Vinci is always hiding such that the painting is darker and the face is distorted ( all these pin- point that Leonardo is near death and he knows his works do not shine and cumulate into fruition and wholesomeness. He is indeed a genius but a sad man who struggles till the end of the Renaissance. Why not the 20 th Century to perceive the truth of seeing Science, Technology, Art and Life as a whole. Thank you for everything for there is smiles and beauties surrounding us.
Something smell rotten in Italy. This guy calls a expert to look at his paintings, they are mediocre and simple. He then happens to have this other picture. The self portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. It will turn out the guy who called the expert will happen to know a master forger. This is the biggest scam of our times. Just saying.
Well, it made me watch til the end & I'm still scratching my head.
I don't believe this painting matches the refined style of Leonardo's small body of paintings. It is simply not good enough to be his. My immediate gut reaction was as such.
A couple of comments; use of the phrase ‘very unique’ is very dubious; and, what is ‘an expertise’? Did the narrator mean ‘expert’?
His paintings of faces always had some.distortion to them.
This one kind of has an orthographic distortion. Not uncommon in Leo's work.
This was a part of the inheritance from my grandparents handed over to them from there grandmother and she was a art student in France that was in possession of a number of the unfinished or unliked items that were brought to the UK and been here since but unfortunately I didn't have a clue what I had been given and I had a few other things I can easily find evedince to be gifted them and then stolen from my belongings that my x refused to return to me when her sister had the knowledge to the value of the inheritance that I was recanly told come to around 200 million pounds and I have no problem with it being easy to find the truth and the people who are involved in the theft and the people who have a lot to loses if There secrets are in the public knowledge that that will destroy the highest family's and secret survives of the UK as it will expose their life of crime and the cover of their terrible actions to keep them in their position of power Wendy ward and the sister who is on antqueue road show selling a very valuable watch and the police are covering their own problems and so on but I'm sure it is a great time to get the true out there
I don't understand the finger print research results? Are they matching or not matching?
What! Anther weird word, ‘expertising’!,
There are some good clues on the painting but looking at it, I don’t believe Da Vinci painted it. It’s clearly inferior to his best known works. The position of the eyes in particular are really wonky. I could believe this might have been by Salai, for example, and he tried to pass it off as a da Vinci self portrait. He was known to be a bit of a rascal and his works are far inferior to da Vinci’s. Its all speculation at this point, but I am not convinced this is by the great master, but it’s plausible it’s by someone who knew him well enough to try to copy his style to pass off the work as by him.
The memory of the righteous is blessed,
and the name of the wicked will perish.
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I’m immediately turned off and immediately clicking off to find a better version of this story.
Painting ON a Leonardo ? Geez...
Provence was never discussed sadly…. It probably ended up a dead end.
Leonardo daVinci or Leonardo da Vinci? And why?
La (sacra) geometria ha ispirato il genio la Loggia Massonica degli Illuminati del 33° grado
Leonardo whas Black and wrote from Right to Left
First of all, degree system should be removed then one can follow his passion ....
Lol any serious art historian knows that "painting" is a scam just by looking at it one minute. 🤣 That thing has no support whatsoever from the scientific community. The two or three "scholars" in the video do not have any reputation. Feel free to check it out. Many high school kids could do better in terms of pictorial quality.
His left eye is too high. A Master never makes that mistake
Funny.. everything i have ever tead. He wanted all his paper eotk distroyed. Anf he was Gay. He always preferred the company of MEN.
I studied art all my life but with the adventure of the computer, it's just to easy to use computer generated art. No more need to deal with the mess done with art mediums in Leonardo's time. Just think if all.the world's famous artists had had access to a computer,they might have really done something useful with their lives. It has also been a question in my mind why artists like Caravaggio, VAN Gogh, Modigliani and other artist were mentally unbalanced, suicidal,self destructive. I don't think art is a good thing for children to focus on in view of this. Art brings out the worst negative traits in people
Would be amazing if the best minds of the past had today’s technology.
Ever noticed its obvious why left handed Leonardo had to write backwards (mirrored) so he didn’t smear the words. Don’t know why that’s never mentioned.
Crazy that my favourite artists are all left handed.
this portrait and the way this show of lies has been done continues for me my dislike of his works, l saw Mona Lisa up close before all the crowds you see now and l dont get it, sure its a 'nice' paining but for me it lacks life, the only good thing about it is the history and story oh and l do like his idea and mastery finally doing the layers of thin paints to make the illusion of depth and softness, to bad he never really completed any paintings or did more to show/prove he was this master the make him to be, he had many grand ideas but never finished any sadly just like this show, lol FYAMF
I can’t believe they even studied this painting, it’s so bad. Leonardo was a great artist not a mediocre.
Not remotely by Leonardo. You don't have to be an art historian to see that.
THANK YOU! The assertions made in this documentary are absurd. There is no actual scientific evidence presented. Forgers use old boards and canvases all the time. Making a model out of clay from supposed portraits of Leonardo and then slapping the painting image on top of the model is straight junk science.
Whoever did it I like it.
His left eye is too high. I am a portrait artist myself. A Master never makes this mistake
Mr. Bean could fix it.