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Siegfried Woldhek: The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?

http://www.ted.com Leonardo Da Vinci's life and work is well known -- but his own face is not. Illustrator and activist Siegfried Woldhek used some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find wha...  
 
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mezerome (4 days ago) Show Hide
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I have to ask. At 1:29 he says that Leonardo did "about 120 male portaits". But at 2:13 he says "the musician is the only portrait of a male Leonardo painted"... This confused me.. Which is, 1 or 120?
PLEASE ANSWER!
mezerome (4 days ago) Show Hide
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worth a look! thanx for posting that!!
MertonHayford (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Great example of reasoning by elimination. The speaker's own portraits looked interesting, too.
meesterschilders (3 months ago) Show Hide
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placed into my playlist of Leonardo da Vinci, thanks
hudd06 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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the old man's nose doesnt have similar charecteristics
DerSchnurrbart (6 months ago) Show Hide
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I remember reading that the "Old Man" portrait was Leonardo's father and seeing another portrait that was supposed to be Leonardo. That portrait was not shown in this video.
elguerreromuisca (7 months ago) Show Hide
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if its true or not, all I can say its that its very convincing....
vosogo (8 months ago) Show Hide
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Did anyone notice how he got DaVinci's age wrong in the old man portrait? He states (and shows) that DaVinci was 63 in 1513, but clearly he was 61 years old, not 63.

Sorry to be so OCD, can't help it I suppose...
vitruvian8807 (8 months ago) Show Hide
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That was really cool.
gangstakittykat (9 months ago)
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