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01638aam a22003138a 4500 001 F69ADC445C5911E1953D60F46AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120221010156 008 111011s2012 nju 001 0 eng nam8a 010 $a 2011042291 020 $a 0470936401 (hardback) 020 $a 9780470936405 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a NC257.L4 $b S55 2012 082 00 $a 741.945 $2 23 100 1 $a Silverman, Peter, $d 1942- 245 1 $a Leonardo's lost princess : $b one man's quest to authenticate an unknown portrait by Leonardo da Vinci / $c by Peter Silverman with Catherine Whitney. 260 $a Hoboken, N.J. : $b Wiley, $c c2012. 300 $a xii, 256 p., [8] p. of plates : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a 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. 600 00 $a Leonardo, $c da Vinci, $d 1452-1519 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Drawing $x Expertising. 650 0 $a Portraits $x Expertising. 700 1 $a Whitney, Catherine. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926014154.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F69ADC445C5911E1953D60F46AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search