Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered
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Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered
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#2What a rush. Leonardo's drawings are always brilliantly vivid and lifelike to me. I find his paintings much less interesting. It's also nice to know that his drawings sometimes look better in photographs, because they've been enhanced – the frequent state of affairs is fading.
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#3Although I am not at all a connoisseur in this area i know that counterfeits are relatively frequent - especially when we're talking about $15.8 million.
What is especially noticeable to me is the back which assigns that sheet to Leonardo da Vinci, being most likely original but would hardly sell for a price that high.
The front on the other side is - almost too perfect - too unbelievable, to good to be true.
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#4What a rush. Leonardo's drawings are always brilliantly vivid and lifelike to me. I find his paintings much less interesting. It's also nice to know that his drawings sometimes look better in photographs, because they've been enhanced – the frequent state of affairs is fading.
What does "the frequent state of affairs is fading" mean - I tried to get your meaning including substituting different words in case you wrote while distracted (frquent/usual etc) and I just can't get what you meant.
You mean usually (for most works) they fade, but not when talking about drawings?
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#5What a rush. Leonardo's drawings are always brilliantly vivid and lifelike to me. I find his paintings much less interesting. It's also nice to know that his drawings sometimes look better in photographs, because they've been enhanced – the frequent state of affairs is fading.
What does "the frequent state of affairs is fading" mean - I tried to get your meaning including substituting different words in case you wrote while distracted (frquent/usual etc) and I just can't get what you meant. You mean usually (for most works) they fade, but not when talking about drawings?
I think he means that the actual drawings are mostly fading, but photos can be enhanced so they look better.
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#6Although I am not at all a connoisseur in this area i know that counterfeits are relatively frequent - especially when we're talking about $15.8 million. What is especially noticeable to me is the back which assigns that sheet to Leonardo da Vinci, being most likely original but would hardly sell for a price that high. The front on the other side is - almost too perfect - too unbelievable, to good to be true.
Exactly, this reminds me of a podcast from last year about how a master artist forged sketches/drawings and fooled the experts to prove he was just as good [1]. What is the likelihood that this was really just found in a book?
[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/457232855/how-the-brain-tells-...
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#7Although I am not at all a connoisseur in this area i know that counterfeits are relatively frequent - especially when we're talking about $15.8 million. What is especially noticeable to me is the back which assigns that sheet to Leonardo da Vinci, being most likely original but would hardly sell for a price that high. The front on the other side is - almost too perfect - too unbelievable, to good to be true.
Part of me is kind of happy that the whole "era of experts" has come to an end- We've all just seen too many f-ups by experts to take such people as a whole too seriously (the downside of course is that often experts really do have better answers than laypeople)
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#9What a rush. Leonardo's drawings are always brilliantly vivid and lifelike to me. I find his paintings much less interesting. It's also nice to know that his drawings sometimes look better in photographs, because they've been enhanced – the frequent state of affairs is fading.
What does "the frequent state of affairs is fading" mean - I tried to get your meaning including substituting different words in case you wrote while distracted (frquent/usual etc) and I just can't get what you meant. You mean usually (for most works) they fade, but not when talking about drawings?
I think he meant "frequently the drawings are faded".
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#10On mobile, you have to click the "show full article" to, well, show the full article.
It really irks me that not only this is unnecessary, but possibly devious, a dark design pattern:
You want to see what's inside, but you haven't decided if you care, however by clicking it you're tricked into thinking you do (after all, you are the one clicked on it, now you're invested, it's not like it was the carefully crafted headline /s).
Do I exaggerate?