Team using modern technology in attempt to uncover ancient da Vinci masterpiece
19th November 2010
Prof Maurizio Seracini, who features in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, plans to use 21st century technology to solve a 500-year-old puzzle.
Prof Seracini believes that the battle tableau, started by Leonardo around 1505, lies concealed behind the later work, which still decorates a great hall in Florence’s medieval Palazzo Vecchio.
He and his team are building two machines – a neutron beam scanner and a gamma-ray camera – which will be able to ‘see’ behind an existing Renaissance painting to determine whether it hides the earlier work by Leonardo, the Battle of Anghiari.