{"id":136977,"date":"2015-06-05T00:57:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T00:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/06\/05\/new-leonardo-da-vinci-image-found\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T00:57:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T00:57:01","slug":"new-leonardo-da-vinci-image-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/06\/05\/new-leonardo-da-vinci-image-found\/","title":{"rendered":"New Leonardo da Vinci image found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/PUZMPCKJXCSNHZELBSJR.jpg><\/p>\n<div>A US music professor in the US has identified what he believes to be a rare image of Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci in a 500-y ear-old engraving. The engraving, carved by Italian artist Marcantonio Raimondi in 1505, shows da Vinci playing a lira da braccio- an European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance. If music professor at Case Western Reserve University in US Ross Duffin\u2019s claims are true, verified, the engraving could be one of only three known depictions of the artist created while he was alive.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The engraving has belonged to the Cleveland Museum of Art since the 1930s, but the figure has was long thought to be of Orpheus, a musician in Greek mythology. LiveScience reported.Ross Duffin, a music professor at Case Western Reserve University in US, identified the man in the engraving as da Vinci in an article published in Cleveland Art magazine.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Dufin said that while Orpheus is usually depicted as a clean-shaven youth, the musician in the drawing is in his \u201clate middle age, with a beard and centrally parted hair with long curls\u201d. Duffin compared the engraving with a portrait of da Vinci drawn by Francesco Melzi, who became joined the 54-year-old\u2019s Leonardo\u2019s household as an %assistant. in 1506 and eventually became his principal heir.\u201dMelzi\u2019s portrait shows a man with a beard and long curls, and the very slight bump in his nose and the ridge above the brow are an excellent match for the long-haired, bearded [man] in the Marcantonio engraving,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>According to Duffin says the biggest clue is in the lira da bracciothat the personin the engravingis playing-an instrument known to have been played by da Vinci. However, experts voiced concern about how Marcantonio met da Vinci, which is still unclear.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Some experts seem to agree with Duffin\u2019s idea about the engraving being that of da Vinci.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis is serious and stands some chance of being right,\u201d said Martin Kemp, a professor emeritus of art history at Oxford University. However, when and how Marcantonio met da Vinci remains a mystery, Kemp said.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>He said Marcantonio was working in Bologna at this early stage of his career, and there is no obvious way they would have met.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>There is some chance the two men might have met in Milan in 1506-1507 during a production of \u2018Orfeo\u2019 &#8211; an opera on the Orpheus myth.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\u201cAt this stage, I would say that it is temptingly possible but unproven,\u201d Kemp added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US music professor in the US has identified what he believes to be a rare image of Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci in a 500-y ear-old engraving. The engraving, carved by Italian artist Marcantonio Raimondi in 1505, shows da Vinci playing a lira da braccio- an European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}