news bulletin – answers

Face of young da Vinci revealed

questions

1. Who is this? Leonardo da Vinci perhaps?
2. How was the image discovered? when a science reporter spotted a nose under Leonard’s writing
3. Who helped him find out what he was looking at? art historians and police forensic scientists
4. How long is it since the sketch was drawn? 5 centuries
5. What did the sketch bear? a distinct likeness to da Vinci in portraits of him as an old man
6. What did they do next? they digitally aged the sketch
7. What did they find? it was identical to the familiar older portraits
8. Why is it an important contribution? because it allows us to re-think the image of Leonardo as a young man
9. What did Leonardo look like according to the science reporter? a film actor
10. What will the picture now enter? Leonardo’s iconography