Lumiere Technology has digitized a Leonardo da Vinci Discovery "Profile of a Young Fiancée" Published next July 5th in a monograph. "Leonardo Infinito".

New Leonardo da Vinci Discovered
Lumiere Technology Makes Monumental Announcement at Toronto’s IdeaCity Conference

Toronto - June 19, 2008 – Today at Moses Znaimer’s ideaCity 2008, Canada’s premiere meeting of the minds, Lumiere Technology, under the leadership of renowned French engineer Pascal Cotte, made a stunning announcement that their ground-breaking technology has led to the authentification of a work by Leonardo da Vinci called PROFILE OF A YOUNG FIANCEE. The work, owned by an anonymous Swiss art collector, was originally purchased for $20,000.

Lumiere Technology has digitalized this PROFILE OF A YOUNG FIANCEE , a work on vellum, in mixed media, wash tint with white, red and black chalks. This portrait - although restored somewhat in the nineteenth century - is in the process of being recognized by internationally respected art historians* as the work of Leonardo da Vinci.

It will be published in Italy on July 5th in a monograph, "LEONARDO INFINITO" written by Alessandro Vezzosi, Director of the Museo Ideale in Vinci, with a presentation of Professor Carlo Pedretti.

With the agreement of the owner, this work of digitalization will, for the first time, be made freely available online on this page for all connoisseurs and interested parties.

The study of this major new discovery has only just begun. This is a first in the history of art, enabling everyone to share the importance of this astounding work.

Lumiere Technology is best known for having digitalized the MONA LISA only to discover the secrets that lay beneath the world’s most famous masterpiece. The company, based in Paris, France, has demonstrated an exceptional contribution to multispectral scanning for art historians and painting restorers. Lumiere Technology has redefined the limits of optic laws with their ability to scan images at 1000 dpi or 1600 pixels per square millimeter with a resolution of 240 million pixels, effectively establishing the DNA of a work of art.

It is finally possible to make a comparison of one painting to other established works by the same artist - thus allowing an in-depth study of the visible and invisible aspects of the work, which was until now impossible.

Lumiere Technology offers a method of unprecedented precision now available to curators and collectors. Previously’ Pascal Cotte made an in-depth analysis of THE LADY WITH ERMINE and hopes to digitize eight other Leonardo da Vinci paintings in museums around the world.


* Professor Alessandro Vezzosi, Italy
Professor Carlo Pedretti, UCLA, USA & Italy.
Professoressa Mina Gregori, Italy
Dott. Nicholas Turner, UK, who was the first one to identify it.
Dott.Christina Geddo, Milan, Italy.

Source : www.lumiere-technology.com