Visual Rolodex Update
It looks like all of our visual rolodex’s will be getting an update to the face of Leonardo Da Vinci. A journalist by the name of Piero Angela had spotted the shape of a nose underneath layers of writing in da Vinci’s notebook on a page called “Codex on the Flight of Birds”. He then got the help from art historians, forensic experts and the graphic department of RAI (Italian television) by making the text invisible by turning the text white and then the same tone as the paper using a pixel by pixel method.
What emerged? Unfortunately no photos have been released yet but they claim to have a self-portrait of a younger Leonardo with long hair and a short beard. The new images will be shown on Saturday, on RAI so I’ll have to keep in tune with the online buzz to see what emerges. So exciting! View the full story on Yahoo!
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