Methods for Finding a Lost Fresco by Leonardo Lead to a Protest

"More than 300 scholars have signed a petition to Florence’s mayor and that city’s top art authority to stop a project that hopes to find a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece behind a fresco by Giorgio Vasari in the Palazzo Vecchio, now city hall.
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war is brewing between art historians and proponents of the project, led by the National Geographic Society and the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology at the University of California, San Diego. Project leaders have bored holes into the Vasari work so that an endoscopic probe can examine the wall behind it for any trace of the Leonardo fresco."  [Read Full Article]

Published by:  The New York Times
On:  12/06/11
Website:  http://www.nytimes.com

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