The research effort was led by the National Geographic Society and CISA3, in partnership with the City of Florence.įollow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter and on Facebook. Salvator Mundi, or Savior of the World, is a painting known to have been made by da Vinci and copied by many others. Seracini's search began in the 1970s, after he noticed the words "cerca trova" (meaning "seek and you shall find") painted in Vasari's fresco and thought it was a clue to the mystery of the lost da Vinci masterpiece.
The researchers speculate Vasari may have built a wall in front of da Vinci's masterpiece in order to preserve it. Like all investigations, any clue, a potential. The researchers confirmed an air gap between the brick wall holding Vasari's mural and the wall behind it, something that had been identified in previous research using radar scans. The most famous missing artworks are often found by having an ear to the ground, and the rumour grapevine. John the Baptist," identified in a recently published scientific paper by the Louvre, which analyzed all the da Vinci paintings in its collection.įlakes of red material found seem to be made up of organic material that may be associated with red lake (lacquer) - something unlikely to exist in an ordinary plastered wall.įrom the high-definition images captured by the probe, the researchers saw a beige material on the original wall, which, they say, could only have been applied by a paintbrush. One of the samples contained a black material with a chemical composition similar to black pigment found in brown glazes on da Vinci's " Mona Lisa" and "St. Supporting their hypothesis of the da Vinci painting's location, Seracini and his team report four lines of evidence: "Although we are still in the preliminary stages of the research and there is still a lot of work to be done to solve this mystery, the evidence does suggest that we are searching in the right place." "These data are very encouraging," Seracini, who is the founding director of the University of California, San Diego's (UCSD) Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), said in a statement. the saga includes an 86-year-old holocaust survivor and film director, his much-younger, russian-born chekhov-loving fiancée, a dying actor’s wish, a friend of allen ginsberg, a one-line new york. The researchers caution, however, the evidence is not conclusive.
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Īrt restorers with the Italian state art-restoration institute Opificio delle Pietre Dure had chosen the six points of entry because they were free of original Vasari paint, ensuring no damage to that mural from the drilling.Ĭhemical analyses of the samples suggest the da Vinci painting might exist behind the Vasari. To see behind the Vasari mural, researchers led by Seracini, a National Geographic fellow, inserted a camera-outfitted probe through six spots, allowing them to view the wall behind the mural and take samples.
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