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 ...
Charlotte Salomon's Life? or Theater? : A theatrical vision in ...
Jewish Theatre - Tel Aviv,Israel
... and in another painting, where Salomon positions herself
sitting in a boat with Daberlohn, she too is in the Adam pose of the same
fresco. ...
Seeing the Notion-State
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,Delhi,India
The fresco, 8-feet tall and 70-feet long, is in the form of a
procession of medieval saints. Sinha shows convincingly how the symbolic
nature of this ...
Japan Still a Cultural Looter
오마이뉴스 - South Korea
The antiquities in question at the museum include a sculpture and fresco
painting from ancient Rome. The report did not say when the suspected
items were ...
Palace may hold lost da Vinci painting
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
Between 2002 and 2003, radar and X-ray scans allowed Seracini and his team
to find a cavity behind the fresco that is the right size to cocoon
da Vinci's ...
Looking for Leonardo
Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
This fresco contains the words "Cerca trova," which means
"seek and you shall find." Researchers suggest this could be a
clue to the location of a long-lost ...
Metropolitan Museum Presents "Barcelona and Modernity"
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
On view at the Metropolitan Museum from March 7 through June 3, 2007, the
exhibition will feature some 300 remarkable works in a range of media:
painting, ...
Hunt for lost Da Vinci to resume
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
... if the painting is there or not," he said. The work
would include documentary research to determine which chemicals Leonardo
used to paint the fresco, ...
Estate auction generates excitement
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA
A good example of how age does not affect value was the fate of a 15th
century fresco of St. Leonard. Old information on the back claimed
the fresco had ...
