The hunt is on for a long-lost masterpiece by the Renaissance master Leonardo DaVinci:
"’Cerca, trova’ — seek and you shall find — says a tantalizing five-century-old message painted on a fresco in the council hall of Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio.
"Researchers now believe these cryptic words could be a clue to the location of a long-lost Leonardo Da Vinci painting and are pressing local authorities to allow them to search for the masterpiece of Renaissance art.
"Maurizio Seracini, an Italian art researcher, first noticed the message during a survey of the hall 30 years ago, but his team lacked the technology then to see what lay behind Giorgio Vasari’s 16th-century fresco, ‘Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley.’
"However, radar and X-ray scans conducted between 2002 and 2003 have detected a cavity behind the section of wall the message was painted on, which Seracini believes may conceal Leonardo’s unfinished mural painting, the ‘Battle of Anghiari.’"
No word yet on whether Dan Brown’s intrepid symbologist and code-cracker Robert Langdon will be called in to consult on the case. But given the confidence put into Langdon’s expertise by the mainstream media, such as Primetime Live and Good Morning America, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before the professor will be tapped.
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I think you meant to use these tags:
Ironic conmment goes here.
Let’s try <irony> ironic comment goes here <\irony>
But then maybe Ms. Arnold really meant to say “the end of irony”, perhaps in a hopeful vein.
I think they’ll find the words “Kilroy was here”.
Doh! My tags got lost. Let’s try this:
<fe>Ironic conmment goes here.</fe>
I hate it when I blow a punchline.
Just to clarify:
The final “” was intentional and was to demonstrate that the previous paragraph was tongue-in-cheek. With my luck, I figured that some casual surfer might actually think that I thought “Robert Langdon” was a real person who had expertise in the field of art symbolism.
Sigh. Please insert < /Irony > into the quotation marks above when reading my above comment again.