{"id":7103,"date":"2015-12-13T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T21:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2016-01-09T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T21:48:05","slug":"the-da-vinci-dupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/13\/the-da-vinci-dupe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Da Vinci Dupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3357224\/Is-SECOND-Mona-Lisa-Experts-examine-claims-version-da-Vinci-masterpiece-held-private-Russian-collection.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The\u00a0Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Is there a SECOND Mona Lisa? Experts examine claims a version of the da Vinci masterpiece is held in a private Russian collection<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Isabel+Hunter+For+Mailonline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ISABEL HUNTER FOR MAILONLINE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/12\/12\/12\/2F0DA74F00000578-0-image-a-12_1449924431253.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Graham-Dixon presented a BBC2 documentary exploring the secrets behind the famous smile\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Technology: Optical and forensic tools are being used to peel back the truth behind one the world&#8217;s most famous paintings<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Art experts are examining a painting held in a private collection in St Petersburg they believe might be a second version of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s Mona Lisa.<\/p>\n<p>And leading Mona Lisa scholars say the similarities in colours, which are being examined using infra-red technology, hold the key to determining if the Russian painting is in fact another da Vinci.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are many indicators pointing to the Tuscan artistic genius,&#8217; research coordinator Silvano Vinceti told ANSA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But of course it&#8217;s only a hypothesis.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous theories that da Vinci painted more than one version and there are conflicting dates about when the painting was commissioned and finished.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3357224\/Is-SECOND-Mona-Lisa-Experts-examine-claims-version-da-Vinci-masterpiece-held-private-Russian-collection.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Daily Mail<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The\u00a0Daily Mail Is there a SECOND Mona Lisa? Experts examine claims a version of the da Vinci masterpiece is held in a private Russian collection By\u00a0ISABEL HUNTER FOR MAILONLINE Technology: Optical and forensic tools are being used to peel back the truth behind one the world&#8217;s most famous paintings Art experts are examining a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}