The secrets of "sfumato"
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23-11-2010 17:50
How did Leonardo da Vinci produce the "sfumato" effect so characteristic for the "Mona Lisa"and other renaissance paintings? Scientists of the Louvre were helped by the ESRF with the analysis of the data when they put the Louvre's most famous painting under the X-ray machine.
The results were published in "Angewandte Chemie", and many media around the world reported on the discovery, for example:
The Washington Post - in English
Sciences et avenir - en français
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