SECRETS OF A PAINTING: Leonardo Da Vinci's The Adoration of the Magi — A Scientific Investigation by Maurizio Seracini, Edited by Loel Guinness washed by water and cleansed

washed by water and cleansed of all impurities

Seracini was able to peer behind the painting and the thick layer of dark varnish that coated it to discover

as well as other contributions on the history and composition of the Adoration

ISBN: 9781932476798

Large-scale clay sculptures representing the main deities are characteristic of the earliest Tibetan Buddhist monuments and particularly for the monasteries and village-temples built from the end of the 10th to the early 13th centuries in West Tibet and Ladakh

SECRETS OF A PAINTING: Leonardo Da Vinci's The Adoration of the Magi — A Scientific Investigation by Maurizio Seracini, Edited by Loel Guinness washed by water and cleansedSECRETS OF A PAINTING: Leonardo Da Vinci's The Adoration of the Magi A Scientific Investigation by Maurizio Seracini, Edited by Loel Guinness In 1989, shortly before a scheduled restoration of Leonardo da Vincis Adoration of the Magi, Florences Superintendent for Artistic Heritage approached the engineer Maurizio Seracini with a request to undertake an analysis of the unfinished masterpiece. Using the diagnostic procedures that would make him