Leonardo da Vinci Painting Found In Florence

Forty years of hunting of combined research team of USA and Italy to find the master piece of Leonardo da Vinci Painting considered to be found in the Florence,Italy. The painting is called "The Battle of Anghiari," Vinci started this painting in 1505 and left non complete 1506 when he left Florence.Maurizio Seracini, an Italian engineer from the University of San Diego, told reporters that the fragments of color retrieved by the probe in the palace's Hall of the 1500s are consistent with pigments used by Leonardo. He said an analysis showed that the red, black and beige paint found is consistent with the organic paint Leonardo used on his frescoes. But the paint could also have been used by Leonardo's contemporaries in Florence, which is awash in Renaissance art. Seracini called the results "encouraging" but preliminary.

Seracini was inspired by the word's "Cerca, trova," ("seek and you shall find") which were painted on a tiny flag in Vasari's painting depicting a different battle. Those who think Leonardo's work might be hidden behind the later wall painting contend it is unlikely that Vasari, famed for his biographies of Renaissance artists, would have destroyed any masterpiece by Leonardo.