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New lead in hunt for lost Da Vinci

John Hooper

ROME: Hopes of finding a long-lost work by Leonardo da Vinci have been fired by the discovery of a tiny cavity in a wall in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

Maurizio Seracini, a world-renowned expert in the use of advanced technology to investigate artworks, said he had found a hollow space behind Giorgio Vasari's fresco, the Battle of Marciano. He said he believed the gap had been "created by Vasari himself to protect Leonardo's masterpiece."

Leonardo is known to have begun a vast work, the Battle of Anghiari, on the same wall in 1505. A British organisation, the Kalpa group, said yesterday it was ready to fund the final phase of Mr. Seracini's investigation, provided he could obtain the necessary permission from Florence city council. —

© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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