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We're also honoured to have rediscovered & researched Sandro Botticelli's (1445–1510) lost Circa 1503 Florence "Portrait of Bianca Riario-Daughter of Caterina Sforza", whom Leonardo used as Model same year in Florence, as The Virgin for his "The Madonna Annunziata" Masterpiece🧑🎨
Gerard Dou's 1672 "An Old Schoolmaster Cutting his Pen"
has the unique Distinction of also possessing his small 1672 "Self'-portrait Study" on its Corbel looking at the Viewer,with frail aged countenance & demise 3 years later 1675-Significantly further verifying his authorship🧑🎨
April 7 Gerrit Dou born Leiden 1613,Rembrandt's Pupil-Our research rediscovered 2 lost Masterpieces-His earliest 1630"Self-portrait at 17"in Rembrandt's Studio based on Rembrandt's1630"Self-portrait at 24"-Also has a Study of a later"Rembrandt 1630 Self-portrait"on its Subsurface
Fascinating revelations from further Technical Infra-red Reflectograph Subsurface research of putative important Italian Renaissance"Study of the Dolomites" SECTION -2. "Pentimenti"Old Bearded Man with familiar physiognomy" 3."Pentimenti"An expressive Grotesque Head in Profile"🧑🎨
More significantly the fact in his subsequent Painting of the Subject LEFT"St George" bears little resemblance to his 1506 Drawing-yet his 1512"The Judgement of Paris"it is evidenced to have closer links to his 1506 Drawing incl identical Renaissance Dress-Raphael"Cut & Pasting"!
Research of Leonardo Da Vinci's Circa 1517 "Portrait of "Francis I at 23 yrs"at Chateau Clos Luce France-Note Three Dimensional effect & modelling excellence of the Ear which many artists had difficulty depicting, yet not Leonardo with his unique Anatomical research of Bodies 🧑🎨
1520 on this Day #Raphael died-One of 3 lost Masterpieces we're honoured to have rediscovered over 5 Decades research-His 1513 Rome "Youth" is the same Rome Youth Model used 4 Years earlier by Michelangelo Buonarroti 1509 as an "Ignudi"within his"Sistine Chapel" Vatican Ceiling🧑🎨
#OnThisDay 1520, #Raphael died-We're honoured through 5 Decades research to have rediscovered 3 lost Masterpieces restituted for posterity-1512 Rome "The Judgement of Paris with 1512 Self-portrait as Paris"-1504 Florence"Hercules"-1513 Rome"Youth"with"Pentimenti"of 1513"Leonardo"
@rosemarieadcock That is still the original "Subsurface" Studio Pupil's work probably Marco D'Oggiono using himself as the Model for Christ, as his other "Salvator Mundi" matches it-But he was poor at "Hands"etc so Leonardo assisted to finish it-His original part has since been much overpainted