Re: Leonardo

Art Chakalis (achakali@freenet.columbus.oh.us)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 13:01:14 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Galina Manikova wrote:
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> BTW,
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> I have heard or read somewhere, that there were discovered some pictures,
> that are claimed to be Leonardo_s photoexperiments - in color !
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> Does anyone know more about it ?
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> Regards,
>
> Galina.

There was a discussion on this about 2 1/2 years ago and I thought it was
concluded to be someone's idea of a joke.

Leonardo has been given credit for a lot of things but the idea that he
invented photography is a stretch. However, I understand that someone
said that there are full color Leonesson prints (predecessor to Fresson)
in the Vatican Museum's collection. Unfortunately, due to what is
believed to be a clerical error, they have been lost. But lets have a
little faith, I'm certain that there must be other museums that have
Leonesson's in there misplaced collection series.

Art

Art Chakalis
Columbus, Ohio, USA