A new evidence of Leonardo fresco

FLORENCE, ITALY – There ‘s another clue that would indicate traces of colorbeneath the Battle of Scannagallo of Vasari’s Palazzo Vecchio inFlorence, are the traces of the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci. The new evidence is explained by Maurizio Seracini, head of research at the Master’s lost painting of Vinci, on the Italian web site of the National Geographic Socieity.

“This is a red lacquer, extracted with endoscopic probe from the same wall – Seracini said – and it has some strongsimilarities with the one of another work of Leonardo: The Adorationof the Magi.” A further confirmation for Seracini, after the discovery of a black color found over the east wall of the cavity of the Salone deiCinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, which has the same chemical composition as that of the Mona Lisa and St. John the Baptist of theLouvre.

”Other works of the genius of Vinci – Seracini said – datingto the first ever goal of the eighties of the fifteenth century, demonstrate the use of a lacquer of the same type as that extractedfrom the east wall of the Salone dei Cinquecento.”