(That’s from a song by the way.)
An article came out this week about a study on some of Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings, the Mona Lisa being one of them. Da Vinci used a technique in his paintings called “sfumato” (new term for me) in which he basically used various layers of paint to give his paintings a certain quality. On some of his paintings, Da Vinci used up to 30 layers of paint. Some of the layers were about the half the thickness of human hair.
Well, in order to understand his use of this technique, scientist used a super duper high-tech tool to study Da Vinci’s paintings. This tool can actually determine what pigments Da Vinci mixed for each layer of paint.
So a machine can tell me what Da Vinci mixed in each of the 30 individual layers of paint? Wow.
I don’t know what my inner nerd is more fascinated, with Da Vinci’s technique or the super duper high- tech tool.
Here is the link to the article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100717/ap_on_sc/eu_france_da_vinci_8
Nancy Mendez
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