“ The Battle of Anghiari ” is a Leonardo da Vinci paint that many in his era called the Renaissance Man ’s all right piece of work . The trouble is that it ’s been recede since the 1500 ’s . Many masses , however , believe it ’s hidden behind a brick wall and a photographer thinks he can snap a impression of the work — through the brick paries — to prove it .
“ The Battle of Anghiari ” is a larger than biography , turning - point - of - the - Renascence - type mural that was originally site in the Palazzo Vecchio . unhappily , it was unceremoniously supercede in 1563 when another artist , Giorgio Vasari , was commissioned to fresco the walls of the Palazzo with his own artwork . No one knows what happened to the da Vinci masterpiece .
However , in the 1970 ’s , Dr. Maurizio Seracini noticed that Vasari had gloss the fresco that replaced the da Vinci paint with the words “ Cerca Trova ” ( Seek and you will get hold ) . Interesting , as none of his other frescoes ever included any words . Seracini started explore and discovered something even more fascinating :
Seracini discovered a fragile gap between the paries of Renaissance brick that Vasari built and the original stone wall where Leonardo is trust to have painted The Battle of Anghiari – a gap that exists nowhere else in the great hall .
Seracini add up up that the lost Leonardo painting was behind the fresco . But with no direction to prove it , without tearing down the Vasari piece at least , Seracini ’s effort stalled .
Well , until , David Yoder , a photographer , picked up where Seracini left off . Yoder conceive he could take a video of the da Vinci wall painting through the Vasari fresco to establish that “ The Battle of Anghiari ” survive . After spill the beans with a physicist , Yoder determine that a particular sort of gamma camera that ’s used in the medical field for eminent - definition tumor imaging could work . He ’s already done some examination but take to ramp up that special camera and needs some funding . If you donate , I ’m pretty sure you may take yourself a Da Vinci codebreaker .
Read Yoder ’s full take of one of da Vinci ’s biggest mysteries atKickstarter . [ KickstarterviaNY Times , Image Credit : David Yoder / National Geographic Society ]
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