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Mona Lisa 2.0: Swiss painting is ‘the original’

Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:52
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New tests on a Swiss version of the da Vinci masterpiece provides evidence there could be two Mona Lisas.

­The Louvre Museum may no longer be the only home to Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th century masterpiece. Another Mona Lisa portrait has been verified by a Swiss-based art foundation as an original.

The Mona Lisa Foundation announced on Wednesday that new tests had provided the organization with sufficient proof that their painting is not a copy, but an original crafted by da Vinci.

The Swiss version is believed to have been painted between 1501 and 1505, 11 years before the Louvre ‘Mona Lisa’ was commissioned and painted in 1516.

Carbon dating tests overseen by the Zurich Institute found that the painting’s canvas was made between 1410 and 1455, which refutes the claim it is a 16th century copy, but doesn’t answer the question why da Vinci would have used such a dated canvas for a masterpiece.

http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/mona-…ginal-207/



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