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Mona Lisa del Giocondo - Heidelberger Fund clarifies identity

The dating of Leonardo's most famous paintings, and the identification of the depicted with Lisa del Giocondo by the discovery of a handwritten entry in an early pressure from the Heidelberg University Library.

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Da Vinci's Last Supper Hidden Music

It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time The Last Supper code could be for real with hidde music code.

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Scientist unveils dozens of Mona Lisa secrets with his new camera

For centuries, the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning. Now a French inventor claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject's famously missing eyebrows and lashes.

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Lost Da Vinci painting recovered

British police arrested four men overnight after recovering a lost Leonardo Da Vinci painting worth more than 15 million pounds ($34 million) in the Glasgow area of Scotland.

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Science uncovers da Vinci's painting technique

Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci avoided the palette and mixed colours directly on the canvas, Italian researchers said after they reconstructed his work step by step "as if watching him while he painted".

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Leonardo Da Vinci Lectures At Palm Springs Art Museum

The Palm Springs Art Museum is collaborating with the Palm Springs Air Museum to provide supplemental offerings to the community surrounding the November 2006 through March 2007 Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition. As the Air Museum hosts this extensive exhibition of Leonardo Da Vinci machines that deal with mechanics and flight, the Art Museum offers a series of special guest lectures regarding Da Vinci as a man and an artist with a significantly creative life and legacy.

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Leonardo Da Vinci: EXxperience, Experiment And Design

The V&A's autumn exhibition provides an unrivalled insight into the mind of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), featuring 60 superb examples of his drawings from British collections brought together for the first time. The pages will be brought to life by several large-scale models of his designs and sophisticated computer animations to illuminate his vision.

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