Leonardo da Vinci

...15th Century, while carbon analysis of the artwork is consistent with such a dating. Da Vinci scholar Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, believes the teenager, shown in profile, could be Bianca...

In this article: Vatican, Oxford University, Carbon, Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, Bianca Sforza, and Martin Kemp

...book about the find (as yet unpublished). He said that his first reaction was that "it sounded too good to be true - after 40 years in the Leonardo business, I thought I'd seen it all". But gradually, "all the bits fell into place like...

In this article: Martin Kemp, New York, Recession, Ermine, University of Oxford, and Jean Perreal

...CEO of Lumiere Technology told CNN. Da Vinci scholar Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University, was called to lend his expertise and also concluded it was a da Vinci. He has just finished writing a...

In this article: Martin Kemp, Paris, and New York

...one on Leonardo's St Jerome in the Vatican. Importantly, St Jerome is an early work from a time when Leonardo was not known to have employed assistants, making it likely that it is his fingerprint. Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of History...

In this article: Martin Kemp, New York, University of Oxford, Jean Perreal, Duke of Milan, and Mona Lisa

...be the work of Leonardo. But Martin Kemp, a prominent Leonardo expert who is an emeritus art history professor at Oxford University, has emphatically dismissed the possibility that Leonardo had any hand in the drawings. "There is not an earthly...

In this article: Luca Pacioli, Martin Kemp, Chess, Mathematics, Mantua, and Milan

"By comparing Leonardo's drawings with the Nung Shu we have verified that each element of a machine superbly illustrated by Leonardo had previously been illustrated by the Chinese in a much simpler manual," Menzies writes. "It's...

In this article: Gavin Menzies, Martin Kemp, Christopher Columbus, 1434, Pope Eugenius IV, Francesco di Giorgio, Taccola, and Europe