Read more Leonardo da Vinci stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/16719/leonardo-da-vinci.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:02:57 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72074/fresco-clue-launches-hunt-for-lost-da-vinci.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLike a mystery straight from the Da Vinci Code , an Italian palace fresco harbors a clue pointing to the existence of a hidden masterpiece, claims an art expert. Now Italian professor Maurizio Seracini has been granted permission to seek the painting considered Leonardo da Vinci's greatest work. Seracini believes the...http://www.newser.com/story/72074/fresco-clue-launches-hunt-for-lost-da-vinci.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 4:15:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71538/da-vinci-fingerprint-ids-lost-painting.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA painting bought for $19,000 by a Canadian dealer two years ago has been valued at $150 million after it was determined to be a work by Leonardo Da Vinci. Carbon dating and infrared techniques convinced experts that the portrait on vellum was a genuine Da Vinci. The final...http://www.newser.com/story/71538/da-vinci-fingerprint-ids-lost-painting.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 13 Oct 2009 5:55:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66659/angry-russian-hurls-cup-at-mona-lisa.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Russian woman distressed that France had refused to grant her nationality took out her frustration on a defenseless national treasure, Reuters reports. “The woman threw an empty cup at the Mona Lisa, but there was no damage as the cup smashed when it hit the screen protecting the painting,...http://www.newser.com/story/66659/angry-russian-hurls-cup-at-mona-lisa.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 11 Aug 2009 13:39:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/45704/louvre-may-have-found-new-leonardo-sketches.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCurators from the Louvre have discovered three sketches on the back of Leonardo da Vinci’s oil painting "Virgin And Child With St Anne" that may be by the master himself, the AFP reports. Museum workers noticed two barely visible sketches, of a horse’s head and a human skull, when the...http://www.newser.com/story/45704/louvre-may-have-found-new-leonardo-sketches.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 18 Dec 2008 13:49:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/33643/leonardo-lifted-from-chinese-historian-claims.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLeonardo da Vinci’s renowned mechanical drawings were derived from Chinese originals brought to Europe decades before he was born, a British amateur historian contends in a new book. “This was the spark that really ignited the Renaissance,” Gavin Menzies tells Reuters, a claim that could force “agonizing reappraisal of the...http://www.newser.com/story/33643/leonardo-lifted-from-chinese-historian-claims.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Jul 2008 14:20:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20213/old-chess-guide-may-have-drawings-from-da-vinci.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSections of a recently unearthed manuscript, dating back to about 1500 and describing chess strategy, were likely illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, the BBC reports. The book, De ludo scacchorum , is a collection of puzzles by Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli, a friend of da Vinci's. The striking...http://www.newser.com/story/20213/old-chess-guide-may-have-drawings-from-da-vinci.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 Feb 2008 18:51:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/16412/mona-lisa-mystery-solved.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe true identity of Mona Lisa has puzzled art historians for centuries. A wealthy merchant's wife called Lisa was the obvious candidate, but speculation persisted that the woman with the come-hither smile was Leonardo da Vinci's mother, his lover, or even Leonardo himself. Now German experts say they've solved the...http://www.newser.com/story/16412/mona-lisa-mystery-solved.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 15 Jan 2008 9:50:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/14701/mold-ravages-da-vinci-codex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn onslaught of red, black, and purple mold has turned the Codex Atlanticus, the largest collection of writings and drawings by Leonardo Da Vinci, into a "precious sick patient," the Times of London reports. The mold, discovered by an American scholar, is attacking 12,000 codex sheets at a Milan...http://www.newser.com/story/14701/mold-ravages-da-vinci-codex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 22 Dec 2007 8:04:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/13982/collective-funk-settles-on-italy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagItaly is in a bad mood, and people from Venice to Naples are worried the current “malessere”—or “malaise—will never lift. On the heels of a Cambridge poll showing Italians to be the unhappiest folks in Europe, Ian Fisher of the New York Times finds a nation whose low-tech...http://www.newser.com/story/13982/collective-funk-settles-on-italy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Dec 2007 20:52:12 CST