January 2007 Archives

Italy to seek 'lost Leonardo' behind Florence wall
Tarankai Daily News - Taranaki,New Zealand
Florence's leaders commissioned Leonardo the painter of the Mona
Lisa and the most famous version of the Last Supper in 1503 to create afresco ...

Italy to Ask Japan for Return of 'looted' Antiques
Buzzle - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
About 50 of the missing treasures, including a sculpture and fresco
painting, are being kept at the Miho museum, a private museum in Shiga
prefecture in ...

Nation and world round up
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... a cryptic message on a Giorgio Vasari fresco. Now, Seracini is using experimental scanning techniques to find thepainting in the Palazzo Vecchio, ...

Fresco may hide Da Vinci painting
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
"We made this decision to verify conclusively if the cavity exists and
if there are traces of the fresco," Rutelli said. ...

'Pompeii' is more than a history lesson
Mobile Register - Mobile,AL,USA
I stood over the prone body of a young woman lying on a bed of pumice near
the large painting at one end of the room. Who was she, and what
were her last ...