Many have enjoyed the mystery and suspense of the Da Vinci Code book. Some art researchers believe they may be onto the code left behind by someone…maybe even Da Vinci himself…
Unlocking a real life Da Vinci Code
Chicago Sun-Times
By Ariel David
ROME -- ''Cerca, trova'' -- seek and you shall find -- says a tantalizing five-century-old message painted on a fresco in the council hall of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio.
Researchers now believe these words could be a clue to the location of a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting and are pressing authorities to allow them to search for the Renaissance masterpiece.
Maurizio Seracini, an Italian art researcher, first noticed the message during a survey of the hall 30 years ago, but his team lacked the technology then to see what lay behind Giorgio Vasari's 16th-century fresco, ''Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley.''
However, radar and X-ray scans conducted between 2002 and 2003 have detected a cavity behind the section of wall the message was painted on, which Seracini believes may conceal da Vinci's unfinished mural painting, ''Battle of Anghiari.'' More...
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