Portrait of a young Lisa Giocondo, which some experts said an early version of the Mona Lisa, was subjected to further research. The results encouraged supporters version of Leonardo's authorship, but did not convince the skeptics

Mona Lisa from Aylvorta
(attributed by some experts Leonardo da Vinci)
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Scientists have conducted new research to try to prove the authenticity of the so-called" aylvortskoy "Mona Lisa. It is a portrait of Lisa Giocondo, which some experts said an early version of the Mona Lisa. Portrait, in which the model looks much younger than the masterpieces of the Louvre Museum, is well known to a narrow circle of specialists on the works of Leonardo. One hundred years ago, in 1913, discovered it in a sort of English mansion collector Hugh Bleyker. He carried a picture in his home in the London suburb Aylvorte (hence the name of the version), and owned it until 1936. Then he bought the painting American Henry Pulitzer and put it in a Swiss bank. Pulitzer first undertook to prove to the world that this is the original of Leonardo. It was continued by subsequent owners (now the picture belongs to the international consortium and is located in Switzerland).

Last year in Geneva picture presented to the public after a long forty years of seclusion in deposit box . At the same time introduced a new 300-page book, which "aylvortskuyu" Mona Lisa again tried to call authentic. The experts in the Zurich Foundation Mona Lisa, who worked on this book for 35 years, once again struck critics. But the new-found supporters. For example, the Italian mathematician Alfonso Rubino. He deeply studied the geometry of the works of Leonardo, in particular, the famous drawing "Vitruvian Man" (the figure of a naked man with dual arms and legs, inscribed in a circle). Padova mathematician compare this figure with the "aylvortskoy" Mona Lisa, and came to the conclusion that all the geometric proportions of the portrait match what is in the "Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo.

And experts from the Swiss Technical High school in Zurich conducted dating canvas "aylvortskoy" Mona Lisa radiocarbon method, and concluded that it probably was woven between 1410 and 1455. Skeptics have previously argued that the painting is a copy of the end of the XVI century.

Proponents of the existence of two versions of the Mona Lisa is believed that "aylvortskaya" Mona Lisa almost certainly been transferred to the customer before leaving unfinished Leonardo from Italy in 1506 year. Florentine house of Francesco del Giocondo it could take away some of Britain English aristocrat, well beyond its history is known. As for the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, Leonardo was able to write it when he was in France about 1516.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru