A first-person account of how the author's initial suspicions of this portrait's provenance were confirmed repeatedly by scientists and art experts. He describes the path to authentication, fraught with opposition and controversy. The twists and turns of this fascinating, decade-long quest lead from art history to cutting-edge science, and from a New York art gallery to Paris, Milan, Zurich, and ultimately to a Warsaw library where the final, convincing evidence that the portrait was indeed by da Vinci was found.
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