(ANSA) - FLORENCE, 07 OCT - Leonardo da Vinci did not paint the Battle of Anghiari on the walls of the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio.
This is what a multidisciplinary study affirms on the famous painting believed lost by the Genius Vinci.
The novelty emerged during a conference entitled 'New studies on the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo daVinci in the Great Hall of Palazzo Vecchio' organized today in the Vasari auditorium of the Uffizi.
"The new studies have made it possible to redirect the research - explained Francesca Fiorani, professor of history of modern art at the University of Virginia -, we have moved from the fundamental question 'where is the Battle of Anghiari' to a different question, that is 'c' Was it the Battle of Anghiari? ' and 'what did Leonardo da Vinci do in the great hall?'. These questions can be answered based on rereading the known data and studying new data: Leonardo never painted the battle on that wall ".
According to what has been claimed so far, Leonardo would not have completed his Battle after starting to paint it in the Salone dei Cinquecento. The work then, at a later time, would have been covered by the fresco by Giorgio Vasari which tells the Battle of Scannagallo. (HANDLE).