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Mysterious lady, were you really a man?
by Deblina Chakraborty | February 5, 2011
Just when you thought it was safe to move on to another intriguing historical mystery, suddenly it’s cool again to speculate about the “Mona Lisa.” Recently, several new theories have popped up about Leonardo da Vinci’s über-famous, 16th-century portrait of a lady. Now, Italian researcher Silvano Vincenti has a new guess about the identity of the artwork’s mysterious subject.
Do I really need to say it? I mean, you probably know the drill by this point, right? Fellow podcaster Ben Bowlin and I create two High Speed Stuff podcasts in the HowStuffWorks.com garage each and every week. In fact, you can download them (for free) on iTunes whenever you choose. Every Friday, this is where I recap what we talked about over the past few days. So, what did we chat about this week?
Leonardo Was Here — Or Was He?
by Jane McGrath | February 24, 2009
Going off of yesterday’s post about the recent discovery of a possible Da Vinci painting, I wanted to delve a little further into why historians have such trouble pinning down the great Leonardo. Questions of authenticity have plagued Da Vinci scholars for a few reasons. But it also begs the question — why does it [...]
On Friday, our friends over at Discovery News reported that a (possible) Leonardo Da Vinci self-portrait has recently surfaced. Experts are hesitant to jump to conclusions yet, however, because they’ve been duped before.
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