After a lengthy investigation, police have arrested a Spanish man in connection to a forged Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) painting that was misleadingly valued at €1.3 million (£1.1 million). French Customs officers thwarted the sale in 2022 thanks to an expired export license raising suspicion.
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On the 24 November, an exhibition titled ‘The First Mona Lisa’ opened in Turin’s Promotrice delle Belle Arti gallery. On display is a painting which, according to some, is an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous ‘Mona Lisa’, one which – it is argued – he painted in around 1505.
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Last week, Unit Gallery in London opened a pioneering new exhibition titled ‘Eternalizing Art History: From Da Vinci to Modigliani’, featuring six NFTs from major Italian museums. The objects exhibited are authorized digital copies shown on screens and mounted in handmade replicas of the original frames. The buyer of the works receives both the physical components (the screen, a built-in drive that generates the image, the replica frame and a certificate of authenticity) as well as the digital elements (the NFT and a unique login to the app).
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After a centuries-old hunt, experts at a roundtable declared that a “lost” Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) masterpiece actually does not exist at all. Art historians Roberta Barsanti, Giancula Belli, Emanuela Ferrretti and Cecilia Frosinini presented the controversial findings at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence on 8 October 2020.
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New scientific research into one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most celebrated works has revealed a hidden composition and fingerprint marks that were once invisible to the naked eye. Continue reading
This week, the Louvre Museum in Paris confirmed its request to borrow Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’. Continue reading
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