{"id":1009,"date":"2011-11-22T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2011-11-22T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T15:26:01","slug":"fontana-mix-for-mid-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Fontana Mix for Mid November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSalvator Mundi\u201d is the story that been on my mind the most this month \u2013 It\u2019s about all I\u2019m really interested in right now (I\u2019m not even going to start on the &#8220;La Bella Princepessa&#8221; story nor the search for the &#8220;Battle of Anghiari&#8221;). It&#8217;s been an incredible year for Leonardo historians. Here\u2019s a few links to share the wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Three Pipe Problem has a summary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3pipe.net\/2011\/07\/platonic-receptacles-leonardo-and.html\">iconographic and provenance details <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a great video from CNN (I\u2019m pretty sure). An interview with the conservator &#8211; Dianne Modestini<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"700\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQkmXHiZztI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the LA Times Christopher Knight weighs in with a <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/11\/did-leonardo-da-vinci-paint-salvator-mundi.html\">small article<\/a> (the likes of which you are going to start finding everywhere) asking the question, if DaVinci did in fact paint the \u201cSalvator Mundi\u201d. We know he painted one it has been copied by a number of artists over time \u2013 but is it this one?<\/p>\n<p>In answer to the LA Times article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artdaily.com\/index.asp int_sec=2&amp;int_new=48949\">Art Daily<\/a> provides a good (if general) resource &#8211; here&#8217;s a snippet addressing Knights question. &#8220;Leonardo&#8217;s painting of the Salvator Mundi was long known to have existed, but was presumed to have been destroyed. The composition was documented in two preparatory drawings by Leonardo and more than 20 painted copies by students and followers of the artist, as well as a meticulous 1650 etching made after the original painting by the Bohemian artist Wenceslaus Hollar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of terms you might need to brush up on \u2013 since they are not really used in conversations about contemporary art, but I\u2019ll assure you they are used in discussing Leonardo:<br \/>\nPentimento (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pentimento\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pentimento<\/a>)<br \/>\nSfumato (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sfumato\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sfumato<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Also Art Basel Miami Beach starts right after the holiday \u2013 hope to see you there. Here&#8217;s a pretty good map to everything you need to know and see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boydlevel.com\/home\/home.php\">from Boyd Level<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSalvator Mundi\u201d is the story that been on my mind the most this month \u2013 It\u2019s about all I\u2019m really interested in right now (I\u2019m not even going to start on the &#8220;La Bella Princepessa&#8221; story nor the search for the &#8220;Battle of Anghiari&#8221;). It&#8217;s been an incredible year for Leonardo historians. Here\u2019s a few links to share the wealth. Three Pipe Problem has a summary of iconographic and provenance details Here is a great video from CNN (I\u2019m pretty sure). An interview with the conservator &#8211; Dianne Modestini At the LA Times Christopher Knight weighs in with a small&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=1009\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fontana Mix for Mid November<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,36],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}