Ebook: Da Vinci's last commission the most sensational detective story in the history of art
- Tags: ART / Techniques / Painting, Christian heresies, History of art / art & design styles, Painting Renaissance--Attribution, Painting Renaissance--Italy--Attribution, Religion: general, RELIGION / General, Art, Mary Magdalene -- Saint -- In art, Painting Renaissance -- Italy -- Attribution, Mary Magdalene -- Saint, Painting Renaissance -- Attribution, Italy
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
- City: Edinburgh;Italy
- Language: English
- epub
Imagine you have an old painting, a Madonna and Child, which has been in your family for years. It is beautiful, serene and spellbinding. It hangs on your wall and for a long time you take it for granted. But curiosity to know more about it gradually grows in you until it becomes irresistible. The day comes when you look at it and begin to realise it is more rare than you ever imagined.
You call in the experts. They get excited. What if that old family painting was thought to be by a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci - or even the great master himself? You start researching, communicating with academics and institutions all over the world. The results of your research are nothing short of astounding.
What would you do if that painting pointed to one of the greatest heresies of our time? And what if it revealed an incredible story that the Roman Catholic Church has been desperate to keep secret at all costs for centuries?
Da Vinci's Last...