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Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered
- tomcam 10y agoWhat 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.
- logicallee 10y agoWhat 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?
- toyg 10y agoI think he means that the actual drawings are mostly fading, but photos can be enhanced so they look better.
- tomcam 10y agoYes, you're right. Crappy phrasing.
- Infernal 10y agoI think he meant "frequently the drawings are faded".
- pvaldes 10y agoNot with this kind of ink, that is very interesting in fact.
- n0mad01 10y agoAlthough 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.
- tfigment 10y agoExactly, 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-real-from-fake-from-fine-art-to-fine-wine http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/457232855/how-the-brain-tells-...
- drcode 10y agoPart 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)
- gpvos 10y agoIn what way has it come to an end? In this article, I see only experts deciding on whether it is a Leonardo or not.
- tombo2008 10y agoIm not sure what you mean by the 'Era of Experts', much less it coming to an end. Can you explain this further? Im all for making people come out of their ivory towers a bit more but to suggest that having high levels of knowledge in a given subject is somehow a negative seems an odd position to take. But maybe Im reading you wrong?
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- vinchuco 10y agoOn 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?
- KON_Air 10y agoWell, perhaps a little. Most of those "show rest of the article" buttons are there to hide "not yet fully loaded state" of the page, some for checking subscription/login etc.
- inimino 10y agoDark patterns lead people to decisions that are not in their best interest, here the decision is reading the article. Seems a stretch. A less conspiratorial explanation is that adding the click lets them know who reads the article and who doesn't.
- magicbuzz 10y agoThey can look at a drawing and tell whether the artist is left or right-handed? Seriously?