The New Leonardo is a Three Pipe Problem

The game is afoot! Hasan Niyazi is on a mission to separate fact from fancy in the matter of the newly attributed Leonardo painting, the Salvator Mundi.

In his latest post, H. provides a summary and some speculations based on the information currently available to the public. Along the way, he explores the history of this iconography, dips a toe in the Timaeus, and continues to develop his stance regarding the intersection of connoisseurship and science.

Check it out!

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Connoisseur, d’après xkcd

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Till we have faces

Interesting remarks today at Three Pipe Problem concerning the Renaissance Faces exhibition catalog, now available in paperback.

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