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Friday, November 01, 2013
A lost Leoanrdo
art is
everywhere
Leonardo Lost
This
is the
utterly captivating story about trying to prove that a 18th century
"sketch," that sold for
$20,000 is really a 15th century masterpiece by
Leonardo da Vinci worth $100 million. And, a year after the
documentary was made, there
are more surprises. .
At he very least you will learn more about da Vinci's art than
you might imagine.
Not to be persnickety or anything the feature noted that the drawing was purchased by the owner for $22K not $20M. Also noted is that the owner who paid $22K turned down $80M for the work even though it is unauthenticated. That tells me it's not for sale. He may regret that. I'm disappointed though that we did not get a definitive disposition on the artist.
As an aside I noticed that most of the extant portraits of the Master are of hot women with only one exception, poor thing. I think that fact puts to rest the assertion of the Homosexual Mafia that Leonardo was a poofter. I mean Di Vinci not Di Caprio.
Tell Karia that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings too.
ReplyDeleteTim
I'll give it a go. If I Were You was a definite winner.
ReplyDeletejd
Not to be persnickety or anything the feature noted that the drawing was purchased by the owner for $22K not $20M. Also noted is that the owner who paid $22K turned down $80M for the work even though it is unauthenticated. That tells me it's not for sale. He may regret that. I'm disappointed though that we did not get a definitive disposition on the artist.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside I noticed that most of the extant portraits of the Master are of hot women with only one exception, poor thing. I think that fact puts to rest the assertion of the Homosexual Mafia that Leonardo was a poofter. I mean Di Vinci not Di Caprio.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Good catch.
ReplyDeleteGood catch yourself. It was well worth the time. I never watch PBS without your prior approval of the content...except for the Muppets.
ReplyDeleteiri,
ReplyDeletePerhaps that's 'cause his patrons trusted him around their ladies.
Hey, just sayin' …